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Last time I checked, the earth “rotates” on its axis and ‘revolves’ around the sun.

So, let’s see. You refuse to refer to evolution as a theory, instead stamping it as “the ‘truth’” and then call the notion of the earth’s rotating (sic) around the sun a “theory.” Then, you have the temerity to rhetorically state that no intelligent person questions evolution.

Hmm. So you are giving more credibility to a process that you cannot directly observe than you give to one that you can observe, even with the naked eye (and no, viruses and fruitflies don’t count since the distinction between their species has always been in dispute).

No, I am a Ph.D. who no longer believes in evolution between species, any more than I believe that humans have caused global warming. I began my own “evolution” to this position while a graduate student at Rice University.

Told by my oh so evolutionist professors to attend a lecture by Fred Hoyle, “one of the greatest scientists of our age,” I heard a lifelong Darwinist who questioned evolution. He presented a very broken fossil record which cast a pall over the entire auditorium. Afterwards, the very professors who had sung Hoyle’s virtues told me that the old boy was obviously senile.

Of course, this was a while back and I am told that much of the fossil record has since been filled in. Funny, I was told the same thing before Hoyle’s speech.

Before Hoyle’s speech and the reaction to it, I WAS an evolutionist. But now I simply don’t believe the evolutionary crowd. They have simply lied to me too many times to have any credibility.

In your book, I am probably stupid. I will bear up under that label.

“But now I simply don’t believe the evolutionary crowd. They have simply lied to me too many times to have any credibility”

Good grief....Lied to you? You’re kidding, right?

Science doesn’t lie. It can be wrong and be disproven, but a lie? That’s just crazy fundamentalist devil crap.

What you really mean is “I’ve studied the issue and I believe the Biblical version, though requiring no scientific proof, is what I choose to accept”

But that wouldn’t be so dramatic, would it?

Did God tell you to say that?

A lecture by Fred Hoyle at Rice where he "presented a very broken fossil record which cast a pall over the entire auditorium"?

Hoyle was an astrophysicist. He gave a few lectures in the 1970s at Rice on his nucleosynthesis research, thermonuclear and nova events, and solar neutrinos, with the two that I know of being in 1973 and 1975. As far as I know, he never lectured at Rice on evolutionary biology, and never presented any "fossil records" of any kind. I can't even imagine such an event.