'Intelligent Design' Foolishly Pits Evolution Against Faith
Krauthammer makes a very good point about these Intelligent Design proponents who try to juxtapose Evolution and Creationism against each other. Since intelligent design is a concept based almost entirely on religion and the existence of God, why would they want to suggest that God was not in control of evolution, which seems like a much better case to make. Like he says here:
How ridiculous to make evolution the enemy of God. What could be more elegant, more simple, more brilliant, more economical, more creative, indeed more divine than a planet with millions of life forms, distinct and yet interactive, all ultimately derived from accumulated variations in a single double-stranded molecule, pliable and fecund enough to give us mollusks and mice, Newton and Einstein? Even if it did give us the Kansas State Board of Education, too.People, both atheist and religious, spend so much time and energy trying to determine the answer to life as a riddle, when every second they see life pass them by without even noticing.
Einstein and Newton no longer have to answer that question. They spent their entire lives stretching for an answer they were freely given as a parting gift from this world. I wonder if they got the last laugh.
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I love that quote. I wanna write it down somewhere so the next time someone says, "So, you're a Christian--does that mean you don't believe in evolution?" I can just silently hand that to them.
Awesome.
Well considering that there's no scientific proof of evolution and a bunch of fraudulent scams of concocted skeletons of different animals put together and Biblically it is clear that evolution is absolutely a lie, yes, if you're a Christian then you have no business believing evolution. It's only been around for less than 200 years I think and I wonder what fad will come next when people finally figure that out. Oh, I know!! We came from aliens who visited the planet and they will one day return again to be with us. After Darwin's foolishness is "out of style", that will be the next one. You see, it is another of the same Satanic tactic to get you to believe there really is no God and therefore then, you don't have to be accountable to Him and Hell must then be a fairy tale so therefore everyone goes to Heaven in whatever way they make up in their own mind, having never been there to see it and they don't believe what God who has been there has to tell us about it. Amazing how every theory is so popular but when it comes to truth, everyone hates it with a vengeance because they don't want to be accountable to God. Or Jesus Christ for that matter.
I was on the metro this morning and overheard this exact conversation:
Older man to young woman: "Oh so you're a Mormon?"
Young woman (carrying a book of mormon): "Yes, there are a lot of mormons in this area."
Older man: "Well yes, it's a growing religion. People seem to be searching for something more these days."
Me to self: ARGH!
Young woman: "They are. And I've definitely found that as a mormon."
Me to self: STOP THE MADNESS!
I don't think that evolution and Christianity can coexist. I believe that ADAPTATION and Christianity can (and do); but evolution - absolutely not. The Bible clearly tells us that the universe was intelligently designed, and evolution clearly states that it wasn't. Hence they are mutually exclusive.
Moral beliefs aside, however, the argument for evolution is weak, at best.
Evolution is based on the occurance of genetic mutations leading to beneficial characteristics in in a plant/animal/eukaryote/whatever. But when things "evolve", it is never for the benefit of a species. Mutations move towards chaos, not perfection. Down-syndrome, dwarfs, cancer, albinos, mental illness - these are the products of genetic mutations.
Furthermore, genes cannot morph into new things. They can simply change existing things. a simple example is hair. Human hair - and the hair of all mammals, for that matter - is red, brown, black, blonde... we have variations, like strawberry-blonde, but our genes aren't going to splice one day and suddenly blue-haired babies will start popping out of the womb. It just doesn't happen. When genes related to hair "evolve", the results are things like wearwolfism (whatever the scientific name is).
*Adaptation*, however, is entirely different, and is scientifically sound, and proven beyond a doubt. Adaptation is that one species can change, but never into another species - take dog breeding as an example.
Another good example of adaptations are Darwin's so-called "evolved" finches:
Conditions on Island 1: the nuts are tiny, and require a small beak to open. The rocks are a dark slate color. What happens? Any birds with larger beaks or of a paler color will die off because they either can't feed or can't hide from predators against the dark rocks. The population is now made up of dark-colored, small-beaked finches.
Conditions on Island 2: the nuts are large, with thick shells, and require a large, strong beak to open, and the island is mainly made up of light-colored sand. What happens? The small-beaked, dark-colored birds die off and the population is left with pale, large-beaked finches.
Two birds, originally of the same species are now very different on both islands, and are thus reclassified as two different species, and the world hails evolution even though what happened wasn't evolution. It was adaptation. No new features were created; old features simply became more prominent due to environmental conditions.
ANYWAYS, this is so long... it's just that after 3 years of being a Bio major i did lots of research into this topic b/c it's so important in the field, so i thought I'd share my conclusions. I hope they made sense. Kudos if you got to the end ;)
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