Posted on 01/28/2005 4:28:41 PM PST by metacognative
Have you read his philosophy? His whole basis is that evolution does not fully explain the world therefore, since we can't explain it, God did it.
That is NOT science.
…I don't know about the evolution from apes part.
He doesn't have a theory. He has a hypothesis that says God did it. That cannot be proven or disproven.
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What, exactly is meant by "man was made in God's image"?
I fathom that all the time - and frankly, a universe with a God is only more confusing to ponder than a universe without a God. The origins of the universe are unknown to me (for now :) but I simply can't replace one infinite with another infinite - that does me no good.
I think there is something beautiful about a nature that could produce collections of atoms that could ponder their own origin. I think it almost defiles that beauty to simply cast it all aside and replace it with something we've anthropomorphized into an answer. There is something mysterious about nature that we do not yet understand, and who knows, we may never understand it. But we do no favor to ourselves by ignoring the true wonder of nature in favor of another enigma - one that has NO hope of ever being truly understood.
Please point me to where he said this. I find it hard to believe that a PhD would confuse species propagation theory with planetary origin theory.
Wow! It's nice for this lay reader of books on paleontology to find herself in the company of someone with a doctorate in molecular genetics, who thinks as I have thought for some time: that evolution IS intelligent design. Evolution doesn't challenge the existence of God. It challenges the assumptions of men who presume to tell the rest of us how God does and does not work His miracles.
Yeah,right, but then..Where do my inalienable rights come from??
A random sequence of proteins in our DNA -- the "inalienable sequence".
Subatomic philosphers: Rest mass is all about "pondering one's origin".
Z. Stichin is more credible than the dinko darwinites.
I was afraid you were gonna say that.
In 1923, while still a graduate student at the University of Paris, Louis de Broglie published a brief note in the journal Comptes rendus containing an idea that was to revolutionize our understanding of the physical world at the most fundamental level.
Didn't have a Ph.D but got the Nobel Prize
This isn't going to be a popular answer, because many view the *words* of the founding fathers as almost on par with scripture, but....
We don't have truly inalienable rights in the descriptive sense - they only exist in the normative sense. What are rights? They're duties imposed on another actor - when those duties are observed then rights are *conferred*. Rights are not created without someone else first observing their duty. God has no duty to me and cannot confer rights to me - only my fellow human being can do that. My rights to live, liberty, and happiness are not because God is observing his duty, but because my fellow man is. When my fellow man stops observing that duty then I most certainly lose the rights conferred from that duty. My rights are protected by the state through their use of police power. God does not ensure that my rights are upheld, not in this lifetime - and that's the one I'm personally interested in. I have a wife in this life - and I want her rights and my rights to be respected in this life. And this is accomplished by the state through the creation of laws and penalties.
If/when someone fails to observe their duty and infringes upon my rights then the state intervenes and imposes a penalty on the transgressor (and hopefully the threat of this penalty will prevent one from transgressing in the first place). But without a state to protect my rights, it does me no good for those rights to be called "inalienable" - because I can most certainly be alienated from those rights as soon as the contract with my fellow human beings breaks down. God doesn't enter into this equation, there is no contract bebcause there are not two parties involved who can represent themselves plainly.
I dunno. The creos have been positing the death of evolution since 1825. Forward the Luddite Brigade!
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