The Free Marketplace of Ideas is a wonderful concept for personal, unsubstantiated opinion. It is not so great when one deals with science. In science, ideas are tested. The idea is either refuted, refined or remains intact. To maintian science as a free market place of ideas means having to ressurect theoties that have been discarded a long, long time ago and to indroduce pseudoscientific nonsense that will not add anything to the advancement of our knowledge.
Evolution has survived 150 yers of scientific testing. Even decades before evolution came along, the physical evidence against a special day of creation and/or a global flood was mounting up.
Essentially, anyone who rejects evolution is also rejecting physics, chemistry, geology, archeology, biology, astronomy, paleotology, and all of the technological and engineering accomplishments based on these disciplines.
Moreover, typical creationist arguments are based on lies and deception. These dishonest people hope to convince the scientifically illiterate of their point of view through less than moral means.
“Moreover, typical creationist arguments are based on lies and deception. These dishonest people hope to convince the scientifically illiterate of their point of view through less than moral means.”
Great post, doc!! Couldn’t have said it better myself!! (And I’m blue in the face from saying it so many times on previous similar threads).
There seems to be many athiests on this forum. Something I did not expect. For the record, there are tie-ins to support some elements of evolution to creationist views. I think it is on big joke God has played on us when we were granted free will. The of the observable elements to evoulution can be easily explained and acceted by creationism, however models and tests are set up by humans with a distinct point of view. I can set up a test to get one set of results and another can get a different set of results.
I don't have a dog in this fight, but I've never read where a team of scientists has evolved one animal into another. That would seem to be the real test.