I too was made “from the dust of the Earth”, and to that “dust” I shall return. But I was also made via cellular processes involving DNA.
Was I any less made “from the dust” than Adam?
Why is it OK for “from the dust” to be metaphoric in my case, with an underlying explainable physical process; but not in the case of Adam?
Science doesn't postulate motivations for God. As to the function of a bipedal ape, usually they seem to think one of their primary functions is the production of MORE bipedal apes. And they evolved into bipedalism because there was a reproductive advantage for those traits at that time. Just as all things unfold in the fullness of time according to God's will.
As to the use of a scientific explanation of evolution through natural selection of genetic variation; it is used every day in assessing the relevance of model species, in industrial settings to produce enzymes of use, in developing new drugs and combating drug resistance in pathogenic microbes.
Science produces real world value.
Nothing of any value is ever produced using creationism.
Thats not creationism thats the words of the Bible and it says that Adam was made from the dust of the earth and that God breathed life into him and all humanity was then born from them.
What makes you an evolutionist and not a scientist is your insistence that these new discoveries would not exist were they not based in evolutionary beliefs. This is a false claim.
And the evolutionist obsession with searching for that perfect missing link has nothing to do with the science either, for evolutionary biology would operate just as it has so far without that.
You have made it very clear that the topic of the article is not your main interest here given your replies and on post 55 where you people who do not agree with your beliefs as ‘cretins’.
Science produces value? Okay then scientists can produce a world of evil when they operate with wrong philosophical underpinnings and fall in love with their own intellects.
Your value judgments on creationists have nothing to do with this article so why dont you take it elsewhere