Darwin is one of the greats. Newton and Einstein are right up there with him.
If God is an architect, Darwin is his general contractor.
Unfortunately for the Temple of Darwinistic Materialism, the HMS Beagle is going down, and the Evos who put their faith in Darwin’s fanciful creation myth are abandoning ship. Indeed, have you seen what the evidence is forcing the Evos to give Darwin for his bicentennial birthday celebration?:
http://creationsafaris.com/crev200901.htm#20090122a
Needless to say, creation scientists have been predicting this eventuality all along.
At the very least, one can celebrate the daring to question and to seek new answers, even if one doesn’t like what he has to say. He was a hero for the scientific method.
Darwin didn’t build crap. If God is an architect, Darwin isn’t even a general laborer picking up trash, if he is even allowed on the work site.
“If God is an architect, Darwin is his portable toilet pumper.”
“Darwin is one of the greats. Newton and Einstein are right up there with him.”
Oh, please. To put Darwin up there with Newton and Einstein is a joke.
Darwin’s ideas were built on speculation upon speculation. There is no way to test his ideas because they are based on one-time events.
Newton’s ideas were based on repeatable testing under controlled conditions — the foundation of the scientific method. Not so with Darwin. Darwin is based on ideas which cannot be tested.
God WAS the creator. Darwin was nothing. He created NOTHING. He had opinions. Nothing else. Something we all have, opinions. God had the answers to all questions. God created this world. I did not come from some damned monkey. I was created by a man and a woman, whom came from God.
“Darwin is one of the greats. Newton and Einstein are right up there with him.”
You might as well include Adam Smith. Darwin borrowed his idea of spontaneous order in markets (the invisible hand) and applied it to biology.
Nor was the idea of spontaneous order entirely original with Adam Smith as it was also advanced by the French Physiocrats. Even in biology, the idea of spontaneous order can be found in Malthus prior to Darwin. Malthus bridged economics and biology (growth of food supply vs. growth of population). Evolution was also introduced by Alfred Russel Wallace. In the 20th century, the Austrian school of economics has argued eloquently and forcefully to explain our prosperity in terms of spontaneous order. I think most of our economic problems are due to government’s meddling in spontaneous order. For example, government forced banks to make subprime loans in the name of affordable housing.
Spontaneous order is often found in games. Many football games have close and exciting finishes, despite the fact that neither side wants a close and exciting finish. It’s a byproduct of the system. One hopes that justice is the result of our legal system, even if it may not be objective of either the defense or the prosecuting attorney.
I think the idea of spontaneous order in systems is a brilliant idea. I think it is easy to see it in markets. However envy and resentment of “the rich” prevent many from appreciating how much our prosperity is due to the spontaneous order of free people serving one another in free markets.
I think the spontaneous order of ecosystems is likewise easy to see, for example the numerical relationship between predator and prey. That spontaneous order can give us life and the incredible variety of life we see seems to me to be a vast extrapolation (and wishful thinking) from the data. Darwin wrote a chapter titled “On the Imperfection of the Geological Record.” What was the imperfection that he described? It failed to support his theory.