[VadeRetro]

There are at least three posters on evolution threads who spend an inordinate amount of time suggesting that mutations are somehow directed.

Before Newton, angels were pushing the planets around. Now they lurk in cells and rearrange DNA.

[ahayes]

Yes, the God of the Gaps effect has also shrunk the angels. :-(

[Almagest]

<< Before Newton, angels were pushing the planets around. >>


Back in Newton's time, he was roundly criticized by religious folks for making science atheistic -- and if he had revealed his rejection of the Trinity, he could have lost his job and his reputation. Today, creationists like to use him as evidence of creationism, because, don't you see, he believed in God and in divine design.

In fact, we even had one recently in here who was using Pythagoras -- PYTHAGORAS -- for the same purpose! I guess that means we should avoid beans and never poke a fire with a stick, which Pythagoras's cult also taught. LOL!