Posted on 10/06/2015 4:23:43 PM PDT by markomalley
Dr. Ben Carson, a pediatric neurosurgeon, a member of the distinguished National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine, and the author of six best selling books, said that it takes faith to believe in God and to believe in evolution because both are “religion,” and he stressed that it requires “a lot more faith to believe in evolution.”
“I think it’s quite evident from what you’ve seen tonight, it takes faith to believe in God, it takes faith to believe in evolution,” said Dr. Carson during a speech at the Celebration of Creation conference, as reported by the Adventist News Network.
“I think it takes a lot more faith to believe in evolution than it does to believe in God,” he said.
“But they both require faith, and the fact of the matter is they’re both religion,” said Dr. Carson, who is a Seventh-Day Adventist Christian. “If we were really to put a litmus test on them and we said we can’t teach religion in school, we wouldn’t be able to teach evolution either.”
“[T]he fact of the matter is, we have to look at things based on what makes sense,” he said. “You look at the geological layers – it makes perfectly good sense that that was done by a worldwide flood. You look at the fact that there are crustaceans on the top of the Andes Mountains – it makes perfectly good sense that there was a flood.”
Dr. Carson continued, “It’s really a matter, again, of using the frontal lobes, analyzing the stuff, seeing how it compares with what God has said and with what Man has said.”
“You don’t find inconsistencies with the way God said it,” Dr. Carson remarked. “You find a lot of inconsistences with the way Man has said it.”
Ben Carson, 64, was educated at Yale University and the University of Michigan. He was the director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital, and was also a professor of oncology and pediatrics.
In 2004, Carson served on the President’s Council on Bioethics and in 2008 he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In 2010, Dr. Carson was elected into the National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine, considered one of the most prestigious honors in medicine.
Dr. Carson is married (Lacena “Candy” Carson) and has three sons. He is a contender for the Republican nomination for president.
His latest book (co-authored with his wife) is One Nation: What We Can All Do To Save America’s Future. It is a New York Times best seller.
There had to have been trillions of ‘decisions that nature had to make along the way’ in order for evolution to have any kind of credibility. For example, why did nature decide that, man and other species needed to walk on 2 legs and upright? To get to that point alone, nature needed to make many millions of decisions and take the steps to get animals to walk upright. Then, consider the super-complexity of every other mechanism and organ that comprises the human organism. The human brain alone had to be the most complicated set of steps and decisions that could have been made. Nature? Or, an intelligent decision-maker? How did nature devise the mechanism that takes sperm from a male and then combines it with the egg from a female, and produces a one-cell organism, which carries the complete blueprint for creating a human being with many different organs arising from the single-cell organism? Nature or an intelligent-decision-maker? Evolution demands that, nature must have done all of that with chaotic events and matter of all sorts, which then combined and produced the first organisms, which then, somehow got altered trillions upon trillions of times, to come up with the super-complicated humans and other species. Nature or super-intelligent decision-maker?
Something would have to generate suitable candidates in order that the entire enterprise does not become a failure.
The “candidate generation” part has macro-evolutionists waving their hands in lieu of an explanation. Look at biology from either theoretical end and you see a miracle.
If we are to place credence in evolutionists, who tell us all life began in some primordial puddle, we have to wonder what would benefit a “new” life from by moving out of the life-containing stew and venturing into desolation and sterility. How does it advance development by moving away from the food supply?
Interesting premise. There will always be food in the "puddle" (despite the fact that there's now something in the puddle eating it), and none in any of the other puddles.
And certainly no food on dry land, where our walking fish ventured out for shore leave.
There certainly couldn't have been any plants. They didn't even have seed catalogs yet.
“Why not believe in both? They are not necessarily mutually exclusive”
True enough.
But one is ostensibly science and belief has nothing to do with science.
“My primary complaint concerning evolution is that the version that is put forth currently is designed as an attack on God with a clear goal to deconstruct what it means to be human.”
Well said. It has become unscientific, if it ever was, and more a religious/socio-political position.
Well, I certainly believe in God’s creation, I’m just not sure all the critters made it to this point.
I suspect we have a better likelihood of every player winning the Powerball jackpot on the same day than that of life mutating from a single cell to the incredible complexity of life as it now exists.
Even if the rules were set up so that every player was guaranteed to win?
Looks like a matter of word semantics.
If over time, within a family, all the tall lanky dark haired boys also had a genetic weak heart and died before the age of reproduction, leaving only short stocky red-heads, with strong hearts...
Did that family evolve?
I agree. Scientists have identified thousands of biochemical reactions in the bacterium E-Coli and have not even scratched the surface.
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