Exposing Darwinism on Darwin Day Ping!
Evolution and Christianity are entirely compatible.
We’re finally getting tired of being told what to believe.
I’m sorry to see this stuff here. This is a policial site, not a religious one.
This writer is a PhD and not an M.D.
I’m genuinely curious and not flaming you: do you believe the earth and all of it’s life were created in 6 days about six thousand years ago?
Behe and others make a strong case for intelligent design. As any genetics student can attest to, one finds it difficult to understand how THIS is the end result of random mutation and natural selection.
good article
Regarding the evidence for ASBE (All Species By Evolution), when I first came to FR I tried to find out just what the best evidence was.
I said “What must I do to know that ASBE is true without having to merely rely on faith in people about something I’ve never seen.”
And indeed, there was no answer able to be provided. It seems there is nothing that I can do so that I will know ASBE to be true for myself rather then just having faith in other people.
And I also know that people tend to believe it and preach it as true even though they don’t know much about science to begin with. To the average person, ASBE is no more then a faith.
Since I grew up fascinated with the physical sciences (like electronics and physics) I’m used to not having to know stuff by pure faith. I know that electrical current flows on conductors because I’ve done the experiment. I know that an LED lets out magic smoke if you overdrive it because I’ve done it. I’m used to things making sense in science.
But then along comes ASBE - and my response is “Hey, I grew up on the farm. I know that a calf rarely looks identical to its parents. So it changed - there’s evolution. That’s the kind I can see for myself. But the other kind - that cows and dogs are related, I cannot see. And nobody can show me.”
I had started out with the assumption that those who believe in ASBE are smart (which is I’m sure often true) and that they wouldn’t believe something that they couldn’t prove while calling it scientific fact (usually not true) — but I came to the conclusion that it is to them a faith, although they rarely admit it.
Why should I have to at best believe a point in science? Why should I accept as fact something that nobody’s ever seen?
If I can see it and recreate the experiment, then great. But if it’s never been seen and I can’t know it myself, then it becomes a whole different realm of science - that of faith in it.
And lately I’ve been finding that one ASBE’er will allow another to knowingly intentionally lie without confronting them about it. The truth matters to them far less then they pretend when they complain about us being anti-scientific.
But that is exactly the problem that is predicted by the Bible for people who do not fear God, for people that say God doesn’t exist, for people who say there is no such thing as absolute or universal right or wrong.
On the flip side, anyone who asks for proof of evolution is almost certain to be giving a link to a US government website which has over 93 thousand scientific articles which are alleged to prove evolution. (Of course the few that I read didn’t. But I digress.) But what this does prove is that the concept of survival of the fittest government research project DOES work: Those projects which try to support evolution are more fit and they multiply.
So I ask this, considering how much money the government has thrown behind research aimed at proving ASBE, how much money can be thrown behind an idea before it’s nearly impossible to tell whether the theory lives off of the money or lives off of the evidence? A theory needs only good evidence or lots of money to live - not both!
-Jesse
I don't believe in anything, Only Yoko and me!