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Science vs. Creationism

...look, how many "different" theories are there amongst palaeontologists as to how the Dinosaurs disappeared....a half a dozen or so, at least? That's all I'm saying. Yes, they disappeared suddenly. That they suddenly appear in the fossil record unconnected to any fossil ancestors, and also disappear without leaving connecting fossil links, is evidence against the view that such animals gradually evolved over millions of years of time. Thus, the fossil record does not support the evolution theory. Instead, it harmonizes with the Bible’s view of creative acts of God.

How many different theories are out there about Christ between many different religious denominations.... So does that mean there was no Christ, that he wasn't the Son if God, that he wasn't a prophet or the messiah???
 
You really think time is the important factor in accidentally forming a pseudo-skeleton? How about the accidental part?

Never said accidentally, a mutation arises and if it is heritable and gives an advantageous result then it will be passed on... A journey of a thousand miles starts with one step!!!
 
I can also simultaneously believe in astrology and God but that doesn't make astrology true.

Sorry but a story that relies on accidents and randomness is in sharp contrast to showing "the hand of God," but I don't have a problem with the pseudo-science of Darwinism because I believe in God. I have a problem with it because I believe in science.

Discoveries in molecular biology destroyed Darwin's "gradual, successive, slight modification" story. There is really no science-based place to go from there.

Yes there was one part of Darwin's theory that hasn't been shown with evidence to be factual, but the rediscovery of Medelian genetics and current molecular studies highly support Darwin's theory on Natural selection!!
 
How many different theories are out there about Christ between many different religious denominations.... So does that mean there was no Christ, that he wasn't the Son if God, that he wasn't a prophet or the messiah???

That Jesus was an actual person who walked this earth, respected historian Will Durant argued: “That a few simple men should in one generation have invented so powerful and appealing a personality, so lofty an ethic and so inspiring a vision of human brotherhood, would be a miracle far more incredible than any recorded in the Gospels.”

Ask yourself: Could a person who never lived have affected human history so remarkably? The reference work The Historians’ History of the World observed: “The historical result of [Jesus’] activities was more momentous, even from a strictly secular standpoint, than the deeds of any other character of history. A new era, recognized by the chief civilizations of the world, dates from his birth.”

Think about it. Even calendars today are based on the year that Jesus was thought to have been born. “Dates before that year are listed as B.C., or before Christ,” explains The World Book Encyclopedia. “Dates after that year are listed as A.D., or anno Domini (in the year of our Lord).”

Oh, and there were many thousands of eyewitnesses to the fact that Jesus walked this earth! No one...and I mean NO ONE....has ever witnessed the process of "evolution"! Why? Because it does not exist or happen! Things change or modify....but they do not "evolve!" The Jazz "change", generally from bad to worse....but they always remain basketball players! They don't "evolve" into "Robo Cop!"
 
Ask yourself: Could a person who never lived have affected human history so remarkably?

Yes. Gilgamesh, Thor, Heracles, Shiva, Abraham, etc. all had major impacts.

Oh, and there were many thousands of eyewitnesses to the fact that Jesus walked this earth!

Such a shame none of them bothered to record it. Instead, you have a handful of people, writing several decades Jesus died, pretending to be eyewitnesses.

No one...and I mean NO ONE....has ever witnessed the process of "evolution"!

False. It's been witnessed in the laboratory and in the field.

Things change or modify....but they do not "evolve!"

Changing from one generation to the next is evolution.

The Jazz "change", generally from bad to worse....but they always remain basketball players! They don't "evolve" into "Robo Cop!"

Evolution does not teach this type of change.
 
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Some people describe evolutionary theory as "Darwinism". After Darwin and the re-discovery of genetics, the Modern Synthesis (produced in the 1930s and 40s). PZ Myers today listed some of the way our current understanding is no longer reflected by the Modern Synthesis. This much change to a theory developed decades after Darwin died, yet somehow people still use "Darwiniac".

....regardless of what "modifications" evolutionist have made or would like to make over the past century, the fact remains that the definition of what constitutes "evolution" has NOT changed! In the context of this thread and our discussion of "evolution" it is necessary that we clarify what we are talking about —the theory that the first living organism developed from nonliving matter. Then, as it reproduced, it is said to have changed into different kinds of living things, producing ultimately all forms of life that have ever existed on earth, including humans. And all of this is believed to have been accomplished without intelligent direction or supernatural intervention.

Or put another way: Organic evolution is the theory that the first living organism developed from lifeless matter. Then, as it reproduced, it is said, it changed into different kinds of living things, ultimately producing all forms of plant and animal life that have ever existed on this earth. All of this is said to have been accomplished without the supernatural intervention of a Creator. Some persons endeavor to blend belief in God with evolution, saying that God created by means of evolution, that he brought into existence the first primitive life forms and that then higher life forms, including man, were produced by means of evolution.

Of interest in this regard is the following comment and observation: “A century after Darwin’s death, we still have not the slightest demonstrable or even plausible idea of how evolution really took place—and in recent years this has led to an extraordinary series of battles over the whole question. .*.*. A state of almost open war exists among the evolutionists themselves, with every kind of [evolutionary] sect urging some new modification.”—C. Booker (London Times writer), The Star, (Johannesburg), April*20, 1982, p. 19.

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The introduction to the centennial edition of Darwin’s Origin of Species (London, 1956) says: “As we know, there is a great divergence of opinion among biologists, not only about the causes of evolution but even about the actual process. This divergence exists because the evidence is unsatisfactory and does not permit any certain conclusion. It is therefore right and proper to draw the attention of the non-scientific public to the disagreements about evolution.”—By W. R. Thompson, then director of the Commonwealth Institute of Biological Control, Ottawa, Canada.
 
You're using quotes from books that are over 30 years old. Many scientific papers are rendered obsolete within a year, often sooner, because of the rapid acceleration of learning and knowledge. Posting quotes and articles from a time when we were certain there were no more planets in our galaxy seems pretty worthless to me.
 
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