Crimson "C" or was that "ID"?
Today on my favorite internet message board, there stirred a slight spark of a conversation about evolution vs the Bible/Intelligent Design. Got me thinking. Not in a pondering manner, but in a spirit of gratitude and defiant jubilance.
Because Darwinism is fading while the validity, support, and perpetuation of Intelligent Design (the artist formerly known as "Creationism") is on the rise. And I am grateful.
To that end, this site has been rocking my socks off lately. If you have time to pay them a visit, I'd love to know what you think.
A long believer that Darwin's theory of (dare I say it?) EVOLUTION is a fair bit of expired baloney, it is deeply encouarging to me to note the exponential increase in intelligent, scientific, and mainstream minds joining the Intelligent Design ranks. Or maybe we are all just suddenly brave enough to come out of the dusty closets where we have been hiding with our big "C" emblazoned on our chests.
I love tracking the progress on this topic during my short immersion in it. Thinking of where we are now as a people in relation to my seventh grade science class gives me such a solid feeling of triumph. My teacher, Mr. Felix (God bless him) was so adamant about the absolute truth of Darwin's theory that the veins in his neck came perilously close to exploding when I gently challenged the obvious issues (interspecial evolution, fossil record, Biblical history, the direct contradictions of Newton's laws of theormodynamics that the assertion that from chaos and random reactions can arise stability and order presents...) that prevented me from accepting and regurgitating Darwinism as irrefutable "fact". I refused to engage in the "evolution" segment, and took an Incomplete (and a letter home to my parents) that quarter, rather than call a spade a diamond.
It is not about a dueling match between myself (and those who share my confidence in the truth of Intelligent Design) and Darwin. He seemed a well-intentioned and honorable scientist, openly admitting his theory could not be proven with the fossil record or recorded historical data. After all, it was a scientific ponderance - a THEORY. And for a while, it appeared to be the best one floating around out there. But it certainly was taught as though it were gospel truth by every science teacher I encountered throughout my formal schooling days. And in college, my insistence on the greater validity of Intelligent Design was met with either rolled eyes or stunned stares, but rarely, if ever, contradictory information, debate, or supporting evidence to back up Darwin beyond, "Evolution is a fact". Hmm, really? No explanations of the mechanics of inter-special or split-special evolution as set forth by Darwin. No clue about the such items as this (cited here)
"Dr. Francis Crick, the Nobel Prize winning co-discoverer of DNA did a probability analysis on the possibility of a single molecule of DNA being produced by random chance. His analysis indicated that the probability was so low as to be virtually nonexistent.
Sir Frederick Hoyle, one of the best-known scientists and astronomers of this century, did a similar study. He conducted a probability analysis on the likelihood of a single-cell life form developing by random chance in the time since the beginning of the universe. He arrived at an answer of one out of ten to the forty thousandth power.
To put that in perspective, you should know that in the mathematics of probability anything greater than one out of 1050 is considered impossible. Hoyle went on to conclude that, "Evolution is nonsense of the highest degree."
Even Darwin himself noted that evolution could not be supported in the fossil record. Furthermore, the scientific community itself recognizes that evolution contradicts the Newton's First and Second laws of thermodynamics."
But presented as FACT, nonetheless. Why? Because it had been taught with minimal opposing information so long and so exclusively that it became one by default. Sad.
I was feeling pretty lonely out there for awhile out on this once very fragile limb, Intelligent Design. And even though I did not ingratiate myself to my otherwise very sweet and patient middle school science teacher, I did manage to make up my incomplete with extra credit in another topic (cellular mitosis, if I recall correctly). That AND staying after school to clean countless chalkboards, Bunsen burners, and foul smelling beakers. Small price to pay for my integrity. Even at twelve.
Thankfully, gone are the days of being marred with our scarlet "ID" (or was that "C"?). Thank goodness Intelligent Design is gaining ground and earning the opportunity to reach a new generation of fertile soil in the minds of our children, for whom Darwin will not be unquestionable, akin to a science iconic deity.
"Guard what was committed to your trust, avoiding the profane and idle babblings and contradictions of what is falsely called knowledge – by professing it some have strayed concerning the faith." ~ I Timothy 6:20-21
posted by lachen at 1:02 AM
1 Comments:
So this is what I have to do to get you to post? Attack Darwin? LOL. Great to see you!
Evolution is that moral fable, not Biblical Creation.
Even if you discard Biblical truths and accounts at will, such as the Creation accounts in Genesis ~ echoed throughout Scripture ~ God tells us clearly and repeatedly that He created us in His own image with intact souls and immediate capacity as human beings. We were not a "gradual" event, occuring as a result of random chemical or electrical reactions. We are divinely and purposely created. Life is divinely and purposefully created. It is not an accident, and we did not morph from some kind of primordial soup or cosmic nothingness which somehow was able to becoming somethingness. Not only something, but masterfully, intricately carved and designed human bodies which shelter our souls. There is no support for the theory that we change or split or mutate into different species over time, which is a critical element of Darwinism.
Nonsense.
There has NEVER been an instance of cross-species evolution found in the fossil or other historical record. Never. And yet this theory refuses to die.
What I do think you are talking about is micro-evolution: change over time within the same species as an adaptive mechanism to outside influences. Appendix because of varying diet and the need for a more powerful bodily filter, cocxyx for a lower center of gravity to support a more compacted, dense bone structure, refinements in skin color, texture, height, etc.
This kind of micro-evolution, or simply, "change" is evidenced in the fossil record and throughout history. In fact, we can see it in human beings within the generations since we have populated America ~ with respect to life spans, height, and other variances we have assumed since first landing on Plymouth Rock.
I agree with you here, if I am understanding you correctly.
But micro-evolutionism IS NOT DARWINISM. Darwinism is incompatible with Biblical Creationism/ Intelligent Design and borrows elements of micro-evolution to create a much larger Evolutionary platform: macro evolution, including the wacked concept that somehow, species evolve from one defined set to another - from single cell ameobas to chimpanzees and from there into Cousin Bob. This is baloney. There is no evidence to suggest that God created us in this manner, and no fossil records of any species EVER morphing into a wholly distinct new one. In fact, Darwin admits this. And yet, so many blindly accept an unproven, flawed theory as fact and try to fit their beliefs about God around Darwin somehow. I suggest throwing out the Darwin theory entirely, and based upon the irreftuable TRUTH of God's Creation, begin working from there. Because, after all, science, like religion, is man's attempt to understand how God works.
Darwinism and Intelligent Design are largely mutually exclusive. We just can't straddle both sides of the freeway for very long before getting to know a Mack Truck on a regrettably intimate basis.
The fossil record backs me up here...and I'll defer to the words of Gerard Shroeder, who I do not always subscribe to but offers insight at this juncture:
"Life appears first on day three ((Genesis 1:11), immediately after liquid water formed on earth (Gen. 1:10). This immediate conjunction of water and life had, for decades, evolutionary biologists rolling in the aisles with laughter. All life on earth is water based. No water, no life. Conventional wisdom was that billions of years passed in which random reactions changed rocks and water in living organisms. The laughter was swallowed when in the 1970's Prof. E. Barghoorn and Stanley Tyler discovered micro-fossils of bacteria and algae in chert rocks (a form of silicon dioxide once considered an unlikely source of fossils) 3.6 billion years old, just after the time when liquid water formed on earth. Genesis was correct all along. Life appeared very rapidly, not after billions of years.
But note that on day three, the word "creation" does not appear. The first life was not specially created. The universe was equipped for life from its inception. It was organization that was needed, organization that could produce the phenomenally intricate functioning of life's genetic map: DNA, RNA, amino acids, the bio-chemical sources of energy ATP. How that organization occurred in a geological blink of an eye remains an enigma to the scientific community.
Day four passes (Gen. 1:14 - 19) with no further mention of life's flow. The fossil record mirrors this hiatus. Life remains single-celled for three billion years, and then in a burst of animal forms, known as the Cambrian explosion, every basic animal body plan (the 34 animal phyla) extant today appeared in the fossil record. Animals with jointed bodies, limbs, eyes (with lenses), swarmed in the seas. There was not a hint of this impending proliferation in the underlying fossils. See day five (Gen. 1:20) for a similar description, and please refer to The Science Of God for a Biblical match in the timing of this event as well."
http://www.geraldschroeder.com/evolubiblestyle.html
I'd love to keep batting this one with you - either here or there, or everywhere. Your honesty and heart are ALWAYS welcome in my blogging realm.
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