So What if Ben Carson Is a Creationist?

Townhall.com ^ | October 28, 2015 | Jeff Jacoby

[tacticalogic]

There are two kinds of people in this world. There are creationists. And there are those who ignore creation.

How many kinds of creationists are there?

[mdmathis6]

“Moron”,,,I think was the term!

[Elsie]

Isn’t this a RELIGIOUS test coming from the LEFT??

[Elsie]

But the key question remains.. does he wear magic underpants?

Now you've upset our FR Mormons: if there are any left...

[Elsie]

HMMMmmm...

[Elsie]

I've seen pictures of Hillary leaving a church...

[Elsie]

A Mason maven from Macon?

[Elsie]

‘Cuz the MSM will really start hammering him.

Just ignore them...

[Elsie]

I shudda read ahead!

[Elsie]

Another danger is that the President has a lot of influence on culture.

Unless he's (she's??) a Mormon; of course.

[Elsie]

EVERYTHING

is a gift from GOD!

[Elsie]

You’ll pardon me if I lack the faith necessary to believe that the immeasurable complexity of life on this planet could arise through random mutations, regardless of what “science” asserts.

Watch the H2 channel.

You'll come around...

[Elsie]

I've a picture of ME on Mt. Rushmore; too!

Well; standing on the base of it; looking up.

[Elsie]

I say these beliefs are mistaken and wrong but I don’t look upon them as irrational.

Mistaken AND rational?

HMMMmmm...

[Elsie]

There are creationists and then there are lying, murdering, Communist swine who have murdered with impunity, tortured untold numbers of humans in re-education camps and actively sought out Christians for elimination because they did not accept the Communist line.

You mean...

AMERICANS??

Our population would be about 58,000,000 more if we had NOT been: swine who have murdered with impunity.

Are you still killing your unborn?

-- GOD

 

[Kaslin]

Nope, none of these

[ripley]

“Our population would be about 58,000,000 more...”(without abortion.)”

Abortion is one story, tens of millions of deaths by Communists is another story.

(Both abortionists and Communists resent Christianity because it stands in the way of their objectives.)

IMHO

[allblues]

I believe that some moths might change their color through micro evolution, but there is absolutely no chance that a single cell or several cells formed the beginning of the life forms we see today.

[exDemMom]

It has been more years than I care to remember since I was in a biology lab, but I don’t recall any need for evolution to enter into research re medical advances.

How much research have you actually done? Have you ever, for example, compared the genetics of the influenza virus across both time and distance to see how the virus is changing? Of course comprehension of evolutionary theory is critical to medical advances--if no one understood evolution, how would we explain the constant changing of the influenza virus? Without understanding why and how the virus evolves, how would we try to devise a new vaccine for it every year? In my original toxicology studies, I tried to understand how a particular toxin is deadly, in part by looking at evolutionary relationships between various animals. I can't imagine how someone who wants to reject the theory of evolution would even attempt to conduct research. The process of evolution is constant and ubiquitous; understanding the theory is essential, since it is central to the study of life sciences.

You’ll pardon me if I lack the faith necessary to believe that the immeasurable complexity of life on this planet could arise through random mutations, regardless of what “science” asserts.

Mutations are random, but they follow immutable physical rules. Just as you get a random number every time you throw a cubical die, but you can always predict that the number is between 1 and 6, mutations are always random but fall within predictable outcomes. DNA can mutate by changing a base, adding one or more bases, or losing one or more bases. There are no other possibilities for mutation. Every organism has a few mutations that do not exist in its parents, and the accumulation of those mutations over generations causes species to change. If a group of animals from the same species becomes split, each of the new groups will continue to change (i.e. evolve) over time. Eventually, over many generations, the two groups will become different enough to be considered different species.

[exDemMom]

I believe that some moths might change their color through micro evolution, but there is absolutely no chance that a single cell or several cells formed the beginning of the life forms we see today.

Just like there is no chance whatsoever that a tiny nondescript single cell can grow to become a complex organism containing trillions of specialized cells?

To me, the idea that a complex organism can grow from a single cell in weeks or months is way more implausible than the idea that complex organisms can evolve from simpler organisms over the course of millions of years. I mean, that is, if we're looking for something so implausible as to be unbelievable. Of course, in reality, scientists observe both evolution *and* embryonic development, so *neither* process is implausible.