Posted on 06/21/2006 8:33:46 AM PDT by PatrickHenry
And that's wonderful. Faith is a beautiful thing.
Faith is not the sum total of existence, though. And since you admit that the Bible contains factual errors, it is folly to pretend that it's a science textbook.
Scientific truths do not require "context to be taken into account."
Says you - I believe my profile page asserts my position(s) rather succintly.
Also I think the biggest divide between creation/evolution arguments is simply - Do you believe in God? After that many assumptions kick in to supposed 'rational' thought processes.
Lastly, I've reviewed much evolution evidence and don't benefit at all from summaries nor philosophies. I do appreciate anything that links to cold-hard facts. Stuff that sticks to the scientific methods and shows all the work. I know no proof is conclusive but it's nice to see all the facts that lead any scientist to a conclusion - no matter what his/her bias. Even better is when they can also openly state their assumptions.
Not for me it isn't. It's like wearing waders filled with water. Cumbersome.
I know there is a God. Now what?
Rmember a few months ago Tiktaalik was found? Not only was it an animal predicted by evolution, the paleontologists used evo to decide where to dig. Sounds like it passed yet another test.
OK - I don't have much background with ERV nor shared DNA errors but is it possible that these could be attributed to shared living conditions? Is their only one way for these shared errors and gentic markers to appear in DNA?
Why don't you actually read it?
Again, if you hopes to know you have to open your eyes.
The next step is up to you. I think you might want to re-examine the Gospels to see if maybe you were mistaken rather than assuming errors with God's Word. I have seen/heard several apparent contradictions that were/are easily explained by those willing to study God's Word more in depth (i.e. learning Hebrew/Greek for starters).
So it is clear that at the time, leading evolutionists such as Woodward championed the discovery of Piltdown man as evidence of the theory of evolution being right.
No, it was supposed to be evidence for the highlighted theory about human origins. The ToE itself was not in question.
And you're just thumping chest and pointing to your home page? Hello? What's your home page against the science of the last 150, 200 years?
BTW, being a YEC means you don't have a problem with just evolution or even just biology. You don't like geology, astronomy, nuclear chemistry, paleontology to name a few things. A lot of findings from a lot of disciplines say the Earth and universe are old. (About 4.5 and 13.7 billion years, respectively.)
I won't even bother posting all the evidence for THAT stuff. It's wasted on the people who don't need it and also on the people who do.
Man!! That's got to be Freudian.
For a great discussion of Ann Coulter AND creationist misstatements on the peppered moths, try the Panda's Thumb review of Godless. Jonathan Well's treatment has all the same problems, BTW.
No, some of them, like Hovind, are clever in a Clintonseque sort of way. I'd say they need the other gifts of the Wizard, courage and a conscience.
I brought up Behe's book because the evolutionary explanantion(s) for macro-evolution just don't fit with the number of 'miracles' required. I'm sorry VadeRetro if you think I'm not allowed to reference a book if I don't agree with the author 100%.
Clearly, the advances in microbiology leave evolution wanting.
As a practicing microbiologist with many years experience, I can assure you all recent advances (and old ones too from Pasteur on) fit quite firmly and comfortably within the framework of Evolution. If you have evidence to the contrary I'd love to hear it.
Einstein deduced the constancy of c from his assumption that physical laws do not depend on the inertial frame. Assuming this, if you measure the constants that are used in Maxwell's equations you will get the same values no matter how fast you are moving. Then Maxwell can be used to calculate c.
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