Posted on 11/07/2009 1:57:39 AM PST by DouglasKC
However the complexity of all of creation is a clear testament to the handiwork of God.
What testable empirical evidence do you have to support this assertion?
How does this “indirectly” support a 6 day creation, 6,000 years ago?
By the fact that the Mouflon is a direct ancestor of modern domestic sheep.
Name one scientist who hasn't been wrong more often than not. These days scientists are often praised for "thinking outside of the box". It is a mechanism that leads to great innovation. The irony is that theories evolve much like the evolutionary model proposed by Darwin. Most radical thoughts die a quick death like most radical mutations, but occasionally one will be incredibly successful, like the theory of evolution.
In the long run it doesn't detract from the Theory of Evolution if Darwin got a few other things wrong. Unlike a legal trial where if you can establish that Darwin, or any other scientist, was wrong on 10 or 10,000 occasions the probability of him being incorrect on any other one is the same. Each idea must stand or fail on its own merits.
I can only speak for myself but I think you're making a mistake in thinking that people believe that God created everything based only on translations of scripture. That's enough provided scripture is properly understood and translated. But the main thing is the evidence of the creation itself.
If, in the 16th century, one had written of medical technology that permits a physician to peer into the body without cutting, or to replace a human heart with another John Calvin would himself had lit the pyre.
No doubt.
To be wrong in science is as advancing to the overall progress of man is nearly as significant as to be right because it adds to the overall knowledge base. To propose ideas not yet provable, for future generations of of scientists to validate or refute, is the work of a real scientist.
That's fine. But science based on the wrong premise is junk. It's like positing that the moon is built of green cheese and then coming up with various theories that attempt to justify this conclusion. And ignoring all evidence to the contrary. You can come up with some sound science about green cheese that is completely scientific and factual. You can come up with some statistics about the moon that are completely scientific and factual. But combining these facts and saying that they prove the moon is made of green cheese is kind of silly.
Species is a flexible classification largely in the eye of the beholder. Many of the “species” of dinosaurs disappeared recently when they were recognized as simply juvenile forms of adults.
Mouflon are considered a sub-species. They have and do successfully interbreed with both modern domesticated sheep as do bighorn sheep.
Hence the term "Theory"> Science has a unique set of rules that an idea remains an idea (theory) until it is proved or disproved.
The whole wide world was open to Darwin to speculate over its origins. Now wonder who taught Darwin to build his own way? That tower of Babel ‘allegory’ did not happen by happenstance. Any way even back in Solomon’s days he penned there was nothing ‘new’ under the sun and so it is even to these days and this generation.
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