“Starting there, it will be easier to topple his intellectual house of cards.”
If evolution is a house of cards then it should be easy to discredit, Darwin’s personal opinions play no part in the scientific theory of evolution.
Darwinism is crumbling b/c people realize that complex structures cannot organize themselves, not b/c Darwin happened to be a rabid racist.
The time scale - way insufficient for evolution to occur by natural selection - discredits Darwin thoroughly. Hybridization is the answer to how “evolution” appears to have happened thousands of times faster than it should have.
The scientific question is resolved. The political question is a political one and if the moral panic of the day helps to close it, why not use it?
***If evolution is a house of cards then it should be easy to discredit, Darwin’s personal opinions play no part in the scientific theory of evolution.***
Evolution is most definitely a House of Cards..... and it is philosophy, not actual science. It doesn’t matter how many guys/gals in lab coats believe it, it cannot be proven. To be fair, neither can creation.
The scientific method is designed to take bias (worldview) out of the process. The theory of evolution is not observable, is not testable, it is therefore not repeatable and it is certainly not falsifiable.
It is therefore philosophy.
Here’s what we can do.......
One of these statements has to be true, as they are our only options:
1. Matter/Energy do not exist.
2. Matter/Energy are eternal.
3. Matter/Energy burst into existence from nothing.
4. Matter/Energy were created.
We can use the Laws of Nature to examine these.
#1 is falsified by the scientific method... matter and energy are observed every day.
#2 is falsified by the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics (the amount of usable energy in the universe is decreasing, so there had to be a beginning or all of the energy in the universe would have already been converted from usable to unusable and we wouldn’t be here).
#3 is falsified by the Law of the Conservation of Matter (The amount of matter in the universe is constant and cannot by natural processes be created or destroyed.)
It is also falsified by the 1st Law of Thermodynamics, which says essentially the same thing about energy.
It is falsified as well by the Law of Causality, which says something had to cause matter and energy. In this case we know that the cause would have to have come from outside of the universe since neither matter nor energy can be created by natural processes.
#4 cannot be falsified by natural law. It cannot be proven either, however it is the only option that is left.
The question is not “Is there a Creator”?
The question is “Who is the Creator”?
Natural Law points to a “Prime Mover” outside of the universe.
After years of study, I believe that Prime Mover to be the God of the Bible. Specifically, scripture tells us five times that God the Father created everything through His Son, Jesus Christ (John 1:3,10, Colossians 1:16, Hebrews 1:2, 1 Corinthians 8:6).
The question then becomes, did the Creator use evolution. According to scripture, the answer is unequivocally no.
Those willing to really look at the theory and study the evidence without bias will readily understand that the probability that it is true is so infinitesimally small that it should be a non-starter.
To all that are interested in this subject, here is a great discussion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noj4phMT9OE&t
Three guys who’ve rejected evolution:
An Atheist - David Gelernter
An Agnostic - David Berlinski
An Evangelical - Stephen Meyer
It’s an hour long but fascinating if this is a subject in which you are interested.
Over 1,500,000 views.