Strangely enough, virtually all of the best and most distinguished researchers in the life and biological sciences in the world find a Darwinian evolutionary view the most satisfactory explanation of human origins. By “best” and “most distinguished” I mean those hold faculty positions at the top-tier Universities and that engage in well funded and productive research and supervise doctoral training programs. To the degree that scientists of comparable quality in other fields express a public opinion, near similar unanimity may be observed. The “best” of the “best” come from this population and are those that, for example, are elected to the National Academy of Sciences in the US or the Royal Society in England and win the Nobel Prizes awarded for research accomplishment. I make the latter distinction because Al Gore was given a Peace Prize, confirming that politics can and does single out fools.
The ranks of “Creation Science”, (at best an oxymoron) are populated by an odd lot of otherwise nice people that are in strong majority not sufficiently qualified (and consequently do not) to hold similar positions. Very few “creation scientists” hold even tenure track positions in third tier teaching colleges. The primary distinction of many is that they publish illogical and pseudo-scientific “Cretin Science” pieces in places like AIG which are then linked as if they constitute something other than pseudo-scientific buffoonery. Creation Science is not science and is proof positive of weak faith. It is proof positive of the dictim that "it is often better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak up and remove all doubt."
If God is on the side of the Creation Science crowd, why couldn't he find a higher caliber of advocate? And once again, if a “great flood” covered all of the earth, where did the water go after wards? If creation science relies on the great flood to account for the fossil record, it needs a plausible answer to this question.
Your words, while factual and accurate, will be lost on this thread, and you attacked for even considering opposition to their ‘interpretations’.
The best answer to that is what Paul says about the 'bright people'.. you know those with all the degrees and teach at the prestigious universities and are engaged in well funded productive research and doctoral training programs.
And I quote... Instead, God deliberately chose things the world considers foolish in order to shame those who think they are wise. And he chose those who are powerless to shame those who are powerful.
God chose things despised by the world, things counted as nothing at all, and used them to bring to nothing what the world considers important, so that no one can ever boast in the presence of God.
i.e. The story of David. A young boy who, with a homemade sling shot, brought down the biggest and meanest foe.
I might add that the evolution theory is just that. A theory. But the 'best and brightest' put forth that it is 'truth'. You even admit it is just their most satisfactory explanation of human origins. To this day, they are still unable to prove the theory of evolution. They have tried and tried. Told everyone that this' ithicus' and that 'ithicus' were the missing links, yet it was voided as proof. Try as they may, in my estimation, they never will. But then again, I don't have a PHD.
At best, it is just another way to diss the Creator and put man in the highest position in the universe. And I find it amusing that they take the greatest pleasure thinking that their ancestors were some sort of bacteria or in this latest case a lemur.
As for all that flood water. Drip for drip, It is still here. Just in different forms... underground reservoirs (fountains of the deep), ice caps, glaciers etc. The pre-flood environment, described in the Bible, was most likely very different than today. The earth does change over the eons but it is a closed system and what was created has remained constant... atom for atom.
Al Gore getting a Peace Prize is very confirming that when you think yourself wise, you are indeed a fool.
Wow is right, so many projections crammed into one post!
I wonder if there’s a good cult deprogramming outfit in your area.
And if you don't know that's a flat out lie, you don't belong in these discussions. - You've got a very fitting screen handle for such a rube.