[ahayes]

The defenders of neo-Darwinism on FR vex me only in that they often cannot distinguish between the perfectly proper attack on the logically and philosophically invalid use of evolutionary biology as a prop for an atheistic secularist world-view and an attack on the validity of evolutionary biology as a scientific theory, and similarly cannot distinguish between the criticism of the polemical defense of neo-Darwinism mounted by atheistic secularists and criticism of the scientific theory. Their politics and its relation to their views on science are not problematic at all as your post would suggest.

I agree, somewhat. I'm afraid you're right that the anti-evolutionists do not distinguish between the two. However, many of us do agree that "conclusions" based upon evolutionary theory that include atheism and moral relativism are invalid. I have stated this many times in these debates--you can't logically draw philosophical and moral conclusions from an observation of the material world. But as long as the anti-evolutionists fail to distinguish between the science and the invalid philosophical conclusions and persist in attacking the first when they ought to be attacking the second, it's to no avail.

[Finny]

ahayes, that was a GREAT post! I couldn't agree more. God works His wonders in strange and mysterious ways, and through the most unlikely people and venues. To me, evolution IS intelligent design, a mechanism of God. The bible talks a lot about the devil disguising himself as holy. The devil uses deception. Science seeks the truth about the physical world around us, and truth leads to God. To me, educated people of the 21st century who are anti-evolution and pro-creation, are following a well-disguised Satan. They are being fooled.