God was created?
Does he pray to his creator?
Etc, etc?
How does the occurrence of evolution
threaten the existence of God? Didn’t
God also put evolution in place?
I believe in both:
I base one belief on physical evidence
collected and analyzed by scientists,
and base the other on a faith that ‘there is
more to life than this’ and that the teachings of
those deep thinkers who have pondered this
stuff for centuries ought to be listened to.
However, if Billy has three apples and Cindy gives Sally a pear, when did Ferdinand III repeal the Punitive Estate Tax of Portugal?
[[I believe in both:
I base one belief on physical evidence
collected and analyzed by scientists,]]
Well if tyou beleive in Macroevolution- then you don’t actually beleive in the evidence, you beleive in somoenes highly partisan opinion about whaT that evidence means- and their opinions are based on huge impossible biological gaps for Macroevolution to be a reality. If you honestly examine the evidence, you will see that it points ONLY to MICROevolution and NOT to MACROEvolution, anythign beyond Micro is nothign more than conjecture with no scientific evidence to back it up.
If you go strictly by the evidence, you have to come to hte following conclusion “MICROEvolution is a provable fact, MACROEvolution however is nothign more than an unsupported hypothesis, and infact is quite biologically impossible” That’s as far as you can go with what scant obscure ‘evidences’ there are to SUGGEST a very miniscule possibility despite the overwhelming odds against it which are insurmountable at every level and trillions of steps along our supposed evolutionary path.
[[and base the other on a faith that ‘there is
more to life than this’ and that the teachings of
those deep thinkers who have pondered this
stuff for centuries ought to be listened to.]]
Oh- we listened alright, and we found the model to be both biologically impossible and feasibly unsound, and we came to a much more logical determination that another model HAS to be the case, and we think that ID is the answer as there is ample evidence to support the idea that structures that are irreducibly complex could not have come about randomly by chance positive mutations for whichj there is absolutely no proof that trillions upon trillions of necessary positive mutations EVER occured when we have nearly NO examples of TRUE positive mutations today- the best we can show from the evidence is that some, very few infact, obscure deleterious mutations have some benificial unintended side effects while still be a detriment to the species due to loss of information and the ill effects of the deleteriousness itself.
That said, an honest examination of both sides will reveal just what a leap of faith it is to trust that MACROEVOLUTION ever surmounted the insurmountable.
And no, I haven’t even heard of Duve’s book, so can’t answer your question.