Posted on 10/06/2015 4:23:43 PM PDT by markomalley
Dr. Ben Carson, a pediatric neurosurgeon, a member of the distinguished National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine, and the author of six best selling books, said that it takes faith to believe in God and to believe in evolution because both are “religion,” and he stressed that it requires “a lot more faith to believe in evolution.”
“I think it’s quite evident from what you’ve seen tonight, it takes faith to believe in God, it takes faith to believe in evolution,” said Dr. Carson during a speech at the Celebration of Creation conference, as reported by the Adventist News Network.
“I think it takes a lot more faith to believe in evolution than it does to believe in God,” he said.
“But they both require faith, and the fact of the matter is they’re both religion,” said Dr. Carson, who is a Seventh-Day Adventist Christian. “If we were really to put a litmus test on them and we said we can’t teach religion in school, we wouldn’t be able to teach evolution either.”
“[T]he fact of the matter is, we have to look at things based on what makes sense,” he said. “You look at the geological layers – it makes perfectly good sense that that was done by a worldwide flood. You look at the fact that there are crustaceans on the top of the Andes Mountains – it makes perfectly good sense that there was a flood.”
Dr. Carson continued, “It’s really a matter, again, of using the frontal lobes, analyzing the stuff, seeing how it compares with what God has said and with what Man has said.”
“You don’t find inconsistencies with the way God said it,” Dr. Carson remarked. “You find a lot of inconsistences with the way Man has said it.”
Ben Carson, 64, was educated at Yale University and the University of Michigan. He was the director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital, and was also a professor of oncology and pediatrics.
In 2004, Carson served on the President’s Council on Bioethics and in 2008 he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In 2010, Dr. Carson was elected into the National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine, considered one of the most prestigious honors in medicine.
Dr. Carson is married (Lacena “Candy” Carson) and has three sons. He is a contender for the Republican nomination for president.
His latest book (co-authored with his wife) is One Nation: What We Can All Do To Save America’s Future. It is a New York Times best seller.
One think republican candidates are learning to do is to use the biased media to their advantage. Carson will make big news again for this. I say good for him.
Dr Carson is spot on.
Carson seems to be learning where there is room for talking points that he might otherwise not have been inclined to say anything.
But if those who know what is right are silent, we don’t get a silent marketplace of ideas. We get a marketplace with all the wrong ideas in it and none of the right ones.
That is a really good point.
I would tend to agree. Calculate the probability of each biochemical step in a multi-cellular organism being a beneficial mutation from a prior biochemical state. Then even if one grants the probabilities are in bounds imagine the probability of a biochemical mutant finding the exact same biochemical mutant in a mate.
Flip it, put the onus on the one asking the question. I guarantee you the leftist dinosaur media “journalist” asking the question does not know a damn thing about evolution, not one damn thing. Ask him a specific and he will be a blathering fool.
Yes. Great idea. I wish they would do that.
I applauded the headline, and then I read more...
“You look at the geological layers – it makes perfectly good sense that that was done by a worldwide flood. You look at the fact that there are crustaceans on the top of the Andes Mountains – it makes perfectly good sense that there was a flood.”Geological science is pretty solid. Evolutionary theory is dubious.
Either evolution happened gradually or rapidly. The fossil record disproves the former, since creatures enter and exit from the fossil record unchanged. And no one has ever proposed a remotely plausible mechanism for evolution in giant leaps.
Hooray for Carson! We’re certainly missing something when Science demands faith, and certain “scientists” seem to be the last to recognize this.
I’d love to hear a reporter respond to that.
I have no problem believing both.
More faith is required to believe that they are mutually exclusive.
As usual, he uses common sense. It really does take more faith to think it just burst upon the Earth.
Like "hydrologic sorting"?
Why not believe in both? They are not necessarily mutually exclusive
Absolutely correct!
I don’t know about “evolution” through mutation, but “survival of the fittest” makes sense.
My primary complaint concerning evolution is that the version that is put forth currently is designed as an attack on God with a clear goal to deconstruct what it means to be human. Carson is right. It takes a lot of faith to believe in evolution as it is proposed to today. It has its own virgin birth suggesting that lightning bolts striking the equivalent of a mud puddle produced life. One can not read a paper on evolution without the author creating anthropomorphic reasons for such and such to have “evolved” while suggesting the existence of an invisible hand guiding things along much like Adam Smith’s invisible hand. Darwin postulated this was natural selection at work driven along by naturally arising mutations which modern research has found not to be sufficient. The problem is that unlike Adam’s Smith’s invisible hand which is driven by the actions of already constituted actors it is an entirely different story when we are talking about a world where there are no actors but instead just the bits and pieces that could constitute creatures capable of self interest such as ourselves.
Anyone who believes in evolution may as well believe in the Easter Bunny while they are at it. Absolutely no solid proof of transitory species.
Pray America is waking
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