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Why I believe in Creation
Worlnetdaily ^ | 12/17/2004 | joe farah

Posted on 06/17/2007 6:54:37 PM PDT by Rodney King

Why I believe in Creation Posted: December 17, 2004 1:00 a.m. Eastern

I was stunned the other day when I asked evolution-believing listeners to my nationally syndicated radio show to call in and tell me why they believed.

"Just give me one reason why you accept the theory," I said. "Just give me the strongest argument. You don't have to give me mountains of evidence. Just tell me why I should accept it."

Not one evolutionist called in.

Meanwhile, the phone banks lit up with dozens of evolution skeptics.

Go figure. For more than 40 years, evolution has been taught as fact in government schools to generations of children, yet there is still widespread skepticism, if not cynicism, about the theory across the country.

But, because of political correctness and the fear of ostracism, most people are afraid to admit what they believe about our origins. That's why I wrote my last column – "I believe in Creation."

The reaction to it has been unprecedented. While I expected mostly negative fallout, most letters have been quite positive.

So, I decided to take this issue a step further. Since the evolutionists don't want to tell me why they believe in their theory, I figured I would explain why I believe in mine.

The primary reason I believe, of course, is because the Bible tells me so. That's good enough for me, because I haven't found the Bible to be wrong about anything else.

But what about the worldly evidence?

The evolutionists insist the dinosaurs lived millions and millions of years ago and became extinct long before man walked the planet.

I don't believe that for a minute. I don't believe there is a shred of scientific evidence to suggest it. I am 100 percent certain man and dinosaurs walked the earth at the same time. In fact, I'm not at all sure dinosaurs are even extinct!

Think of all the world's legends about dragons. Look at those images. What were those folks seeing? They were clearly seeing dinosaurs. You can see them etched in cave drawings. You can see them in ancient literature. You can see them described in the Bible. You can see them in virtually every culture in every corner of the world.

Did the human race have a collective common nightmare? Or did these people actually see dragons? I believe they saw dragons – what we now call dinosaurs.

Furthermore, many of the dinosaur fossils discovered in various parts of the world were found right along human footprints and remains. How did that happen?

And what about the not-so-unusual sightings of contemporary sea monsters? Some of them have actually been captured.

There are also countless contemporary sightings of what appear to be pterodactyls in Asia and Africa.

You know what I think? I think we've been sold a bill of goods about the dinosaurs. I don't believe they died off millions and millions of years ago. In fact, I'm not at all convinced they've died off completely.

Evolutionists have put the cart before the horse. They start out with a theory, then ignore all the facts that contradict the theory. Any observation that might call into question their assumptions is discounted, ridiculed and covered up. That's not science.

How could all the thousands of historical records of dragons and behemoths throughout mankind's time on earth be ignored? Let's admit it. At least some of these observations and records indicate dinosaurs were walking the earth fairly recently – if not still walking it today.

If I'm right about that – which I am – then the whole evolutionary house of cards comes tumbling down.

This is the evidence about which the evolutionists dare not speak.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: barney; betty; creationism; crevo; dino; dlrcravescock; evolution; farah; farahisafag; fred; fsmdidit; nutjob; trydarwincentral; wilma; wnd
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To: b_sharp

The Bible is unique and sacred for the following:

Its uniqueness

Its historical accuracy

The evidence of fulfilled prophecy

Its scientific accuracy

Its demonstration of changed lives

You should read it...it’s amazing!


641 posted on 06/22/2007 7:41:07 AM PDT by eleni121 ((+ En Touto Nika! By this sign conquer! + Constantine the Great)
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To: DreamsofPolycarp
I don't think the Wright Brothers, Einstein, Oppenheimer, and Von Braun went through life with the notion that nothing can be proven.

They made hypotheses, experimented, and proved their theories with results. I doubt they got too caught up in whether their results were too axiomatic.

If you want to use that logic to make the case that science cannot disprove the existence of God, fine, but it also cannot be used to prove his existence either.

Evolution has science that can be tested over time. "God did it" does not.

642 posted on 06/22/2007 7:54:10 AM PDT by GunRunner (Come on Fred, how long are you going to wait?)
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To: DreamsofPolycarp
You don’t really exist — I conjured you up in my mind. Can you prove that is incorrect?

No, but we can put you in a straight jacket while the rest of the world gets on with our lives.

643 posted on 06/22/2007 7:56:35 AM PDT by GunRunner (Come on Fred, how long are you going to wait?)
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To: eleni121

You have scientific proof for the existenced of God?


644 posted on 06/22/2007 7:57:40 AM PDT by GunRunner (Come on Fred, how long are you going to wait?)
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To: GunRunner
I am an ex-engineer and have great respect for the achievements of these people. That does NOT mean that there is a solid "proof" for empiricism. These men made a great many assumptions and then worked through their "proofs" within those assumptions, which are, as all presuppositions, accepted by faith. I am busy losing my butt right now in silver, so I will have to get back with you in more detail on this at a later time. Look for a post from me on this over the weekend if that is ok?

You are clearly confused over the difference between unproved and unprovable presuppositions (some call them "axioms") and empirical methodology.

645 posted on 06/22/2007 8:06:57 AM PDT by DreamsofPolycarp (Americans used to roar like lions for liberty. Now they bleat like sheep for security)
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To: DreamsofPolycarp
I would say that my main confusion is with why empiricism is important only when evolution comes up.

When Oppie theorized that you could split the atom and create a nuclear explosion, no one talked about axioms, empiricism, or God.

Yet anytime evolution is brought up, all of a sudden the hard core Genesis literalists come out and tell us that nothing is real, all life and existence is relative, and start assigning very human qualities (like empiricism, spirituality, and purpose) to a very concrete and unemotional universe.

646 posted on 06/22/2007 8:11:46 AM PDT by GunRunner (Come on Fred, how long are you going to wait?)
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To: BearCub
We found Tiktaalik and Gogonasus in the past couple years, fossils are popping up all the time. I wouldn't stake my hopes on the absence of any particular fossil if I were you.

Where are all the transitional fossils between dinosaurs and Archaeopteryx?

What in particular are you looking for? Archaeopteryx has such a dinosaurian skeleton that it probably would have been classified as a small theropod dinosaur if it hadn't had such nice feathers. The theropod dinosaurs as a group have many avian traits. In fact, there's one group, Alvarezsauridae, which until recently were classified as flightless birds! The group that Archaeopteryx most closely resembles, the Dromaeosauridae, has some researchers arguing that it should actually be placed under Aves (the birds). Among the dromaeosaurids is Microraptor, a fully-feathered gliding dinosaur. Others of the dromaeosaurs had feathers as well. Another theropod group with strong avian traits is Oviraptorosauria. These dinosaurs had beaks and some (probably all, since scientists and modern birds agree that once you've acquired feathers, it's not often you get rid of them) were feathered. This is another group that some scientists think is more accurately placed in Aves.

There should be countless fossils with incremental changes, yet there are none.

I find the people most likely to say things like this are the ones least likely to have read a paleontology book.

647 posted on 06/22/2007 8:12:01 AM PDT by ahayes ("Impenetrability! That's what I say!")
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To: GunRunner; DreamsofPolycarp

Okay, maybe Oppie did quote from a Hindu text about the end of the world. But that was strictly to deal with his own very human emotions over creating something so destructive; it had nothing to do with the very real science that he used to create the weapon.


648 posted on 06/22/2007 8:13:58 AM PDT by GunRunner (Come on Fred, how long are you going to wait?)
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To: GunRunner
Describing it as a stage from one species to the next is not accurate. This is a creationist way of looking at things. Creationists tend to demand linear transformations from species A -> B -> C, with previous species neatly dying out to make way for their daughter species. In actuality evolution is a branching process. Because of this you will hardly ever see a species described as linearly descending from another. This is only done when we've got an extremely good record of the area and that is the only possible parent species. Even then the species transition will have gone through a stage where the traits were intermediate, so it's possible a species fell between which has not been preserved in the fossil record. Studies of human skulls show this type of gradual modification of traits.

Hold on a minute. Let's take one of those stages; Protoceratops-->Diarthrognathus.

From my reading Diarthrognathus is a Triassic mammal-like reptile. Did you mean to insert a different Latin name?

Our actual first ceratops is Psittacosaurus, which shows the transition from bipedalism to quadrupedalism and the beginnings of the skull's frill. Then we have Protoceratops and Leptoceratops, which were not linear descendants of Psittacosaurus. These ceratopsians have larger frills than Psittacosaurus and are quadrupeds. In later evolution, the frill increased in size, sometimes dramatically, and horns were added. This would have been a gradual process, and not all of the evolutionary lineages are preserved.

Did Protoceratops just wake up one day and become a Diarthrognathus?

Oh dear. Assuming we're talking about a ceratopsian that came later and not a Triassic mammal-like reptile that came far before, the answer to your first question is No. The evolutionary process from one species to the next would have been slow.

Did Protoceratops develop in tiny thousands of stages until one day he became Diarthrognathus?

Describing it as thousands of stages is arbitrary, but yes. The changes involved initially would have been an increase in size. The largest Protoceratops were already developing a nasal horn. Future changes would have been modifications of these, plus at some point the addition of a few more horns.

Did two Protoceratops conceive a Diarthrognathus, and if so, how was another Diarthrognathus able to find an opposite sex mate to breed with?

No. Evolution is a process involving populations, not individuals. You would have a population of Protoceratops gradually becoming larger and increasing the size of their frill and horn. Eventually you would see a new species, which would in its turn slowly change. What we see in the fossil record are snapshots of these changes, since fossilization is a rare event, especially for land animals.

I think evolution is a totally plausible theory, but I don't see its reflection in the fossil record.

What can I say? I do.

649 posted on 06/22/2007 8:30:59 AM PDT by ahayes ("Impenetrability! That's what I say!")
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To: DreamsofPolycarp

I find it hard to believe that you’re a scientist. Do you wake up every morning thanking God that you believe in him, because if you didn’t darned if you might just fall through the floor or shoot up through the roof?


650 posted on 06/22/2007 8:33:25 AM PDT by ahayes ("Impenetrability! That's what I say!")
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To: GunRunner
I would say that my main confusion is with why empiricism is important only when evolution comes up

I dont give a crap about "evolution." What I DO care about is the utterly nonsensical, idiotic, and stupid preening of empiricists who prate emptyheadedness about "you have faith and I have proof." I happen to be a serious evangelical who is also a measured fan of Penn and Teller in that I believe in calling bullshit by its name.

"Evolution" threads gives simplistic fundies to show off their wares and correspondingly gives fatuous arguments by empiricists a chance to display their own brand of the same idiocy. While vicious attacks (like this) are no subsitute for reasoned arguments, now you know my opinion. I will, I promise, try to back it up online for you over the weekend. Fair 'nough?

651 posted on 06/22/2007 8:40:40 AM PDT by DreamsofPolycarp (Americans used to roar like lions for liberty. Now they bleat like sheep for security)
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To: b_sharp

Good post. :-)


652 posted on 06/22/2007 8:47:47 AM PDT by ahayes ("Impenetrability! That's what I say!")
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To: DreamsofPolycarp

You had an opportunity to engage in a discussion of empiricism and methodological naturalism back at post 940.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1851882/posts?page=540#540

Science does not engage in truth finding or proofs. It does engage in acquiring reliable knowledge. Since I know most of the people here who argue for evolution, and I know that they spend a lot of time refuting the charge that science “proves” things, I expect you to find a counterexample or withdraw your claim that we prate about having proof.


653 posted on 06/22/2007 8:48:59 AM PDT by js1138
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To: ahayes
I find it hard to believe that you’re a scientist.

I am not. I am a broker/trader/money manager, who happens to have a degree in chemistry and a few years of experience as an engineer.

Do you wake up every morning thanking God that you believe in him, because if you didn’t darned if you might just fall through the floor or shoot up through the roof?

No, I rather thank God that he maintains the order of the universe and I can be confident that he is immanent in his creation so that the elements behave in an ordered and predictable manner. Kind of like ALL the men of science did before we decided to dress up NATURALISM like some kind of drag queen and call it "science." You keep the same insistence on order, predictability, and uniformity...., you just don't have a clue as to why anymore. Instead, you are forced to some idiocy about statistics and our incredibly limited range of experience (which itself is not even consistent when we approach matter and energy on a qauntum level)....... so you bluster instead. Clear enough?

654 posted on 06/22/2007 8:50:31 AM PDT by DreamsofPolycarp (Americans used to roar like lions for liberty. Now they bleat like sheep for security)
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To: js1138
I have a post I am working through using your starting point of the PRINCIPIA as the beginning point. I will cheat by letting you know that I think your starting point is a good one, and I commend you for beginning there. I will be sure and ping you with the response (I was planning to, anyway).

Thanks for your responses. I have always enjoyed interacting with you.

655 posted on 06/22/2007 8:53:04 AM PDT by DreamsofPolycarp (Americans used to roar like lions for liberty. Now they bleat like sheep for security)
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To: DreamsofPolycarp
Nope, you muddle-headed fool (just keeping up with your standard of posting :-D).

Every time an observation is made, it tests the hypothesis that physical laws do not change.

  1. Woke up today. Assume gravity will work. Does it?
  2. Check. One more confirmation for the hypothesis that gravity is constant.
  3. Note to self: monitor self today to see if gravity remains constant throughout the day.

People have looked at evidence for the speed of light, which is thought to be constant, and determined that it has been constant for billions of years, maybe since the beginning of time. In the same way other constants have been studied. You seem to have this hangup in which you think that because something is assumed, it cannot be confirmed or denied. If it really were true that we were just supposing that these things have been constant and are currently constant and do not or cannot check up on them, then such assumptions would be outside the realm of science. As it is they are not because they are constantly tested.

656 posted on 06/22/2007 8:59:10 AM PDT by ahayes ("Impenetrability! That's what I say!")
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To: Rodney King
Hmm, I wonder if it's time to once again jump into a crevo thread. I usually peek in now and then to see if anything's changed. Doesn't seem like it has.

Two words though, for those who's faith is shattered by the possibility of evolution: Theistic evolution.

Give it a try. It won't bite! That is of course if you don't have a problem believing the Bible is metaphorical and or allegorical at times. If not, how are you typing without hands?

Note for the super-literalists: Something can be objectively true and still be metaphorical or allegorical. Didn't know that? Well now you do. Hint: it's because while there's a difference between literal and metaphorical, both are still able to deliniate truth. So let's drop the "can't have salvation without the creation story being literally true!" canard, because there's no basis for that other than, quite frankly, some deep seeded bais against or hatred for science.

657 posted on 06/22/2007 9:04:35 AM PDT by FourtySeven (47)
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To: ahayes
Exactly how many planets/celestial bodies have we tested gravity on?

How many are there in the universe?

Do we have any celestial data for which we say "hmmmm, this doesn't seem to fit our model?

Exactly how many photons (assuming for the moment that photons really ARE particles) of light would you assume have been tested??

How many photons of light would you say are there in the universe?

How categorically sure can you be that all travel at the same rate of speed, given the paucity of your data set?

There is nothing wrong with using a working model, as long as you people are honest about the infinitesimally small data set you are using to propose it......,, and you do not. Instead you mock. That is the response of a heresy tribunal and not an empiricist.

658 posted on 06/22/2007 9:10:19 AM PDT by DreamsofPolycarp (Americans used to roar like lions for liberty. Now they bleat like sheep for security)
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To: DreamsofPolycarp
Every test of physical laws that we have done has confirmed them. If we have a test that shows something different, the models will change.

Instead you mock.

:'-(

If you're complaining about my treatment of you in particular, that's quite apart from this issue and is due to your treatment of me. According to my data set, you're among the more spiteful people I've run into here. So please don't martyr yourself over it. It's much more effective when you don't begin your martyrdom by poking the lions with sticks prior to leaping in the cage.

659 posted on 06/22/2007 9:29:02 AM PDT by ahayes ("Impenetrability! That's what I say!")
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To: DreamsofPolycarp
"NOTHING can be "proved." The great hubris of naturalists is that empirical assertions are "proved" because they are supported by empirical observations. That is horseshit and doesn't get nearly the mockery it should. Empiricism is every bit as much faith based as the person sitting in the pew reciting "I believe in God the Father Almighty.... " etc."

You either ignored or missed the quotes I put around the word 'prove'. It is the Creationists who demand that things be proved 100%, no scientist I know concludes that his work 'proves' anything. Your comment about empiricists is wrong, I doubt there are any strict empiricists in science, I suspect they are all pragmatists, but in any case the simple observation of an event or object is never taken as proof of something but as a start to investigation.

If you want to discuss requirements of 100% proof, talk to all those Creationists who demand Evolution be proved by direct observation. Scientists will just shrug your question off as coming from someone misinformed.

Just as a final note, you are equivocating with the word 'faith'. The 'faith' used by science is much different than the 'faith' used by the religious.

660 posted on 06/22/2007 9:39:49 AM PDT by b_sharp (The last door on your right. Jiggle the handle. If they scream ignore it. Leave no quarter.)
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