tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4307187040250193857.post7713323306282542069..comments2024-03-20T03:33:22.357-07:00Comments on Skeptophilia: Information revolutionGordon Bonnethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06003472005971594466noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4307187040250193857.post-86565681596623495322016-01-03T03:38:26.615-08:002016-01-03T03:38:26.615-08:00Good comment Ray Edwards, your choice of the word ...Good comment Ray Edwards, your choice of the word 'backdrop' was significant to me at least, that is a word I use often in relation to 'Creationism'. It is so fitting.<br /><br />All the best,<br />WoodyWoodyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16756590870917752187noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4307187040250193857.post-59105479502266508432016-01-02T20:03:31.933-08:002016-01-02T20:03:31.933-08:00I;ve never quite understood why the fundies (is th...I;ve never quite understood why the fundies (is that a pun?)are so opposed to evolution and natural selection. Evolution and natural selection are processes we can see today. Theories and observations say little about the origins of life, or when it was created. We could postulate that God created the rules of natural selection along with everything else, and it would have no impact on their beliefs. As the joke has it, God wants us to believe in Evolution. Why else would he have left so much evidence for it lying around when He created the universe in 4004 BC? One explanation I have seen is a strange religious interpretation. That is, the world around us is is meant by God to be an unchanging and static backdrop to the important things like the human struggle between good and evil. That's a bit weird to me, as it involves these people knowing what their God has in mind. As Niels Bohr famously told Albert Einstein, in a slightly different context, "Stop telling God what he can or can't do!" Personally I can't see how natural selection can't happen, as its rules are clearly derivable from simple logic. ANY genetic diversity in any population of organisms living in a resource-constrained environment results immediately and inevitably in selective pressures. Obviously, the calculated age of fossils contradicts the supposed Biblical chronology, but that simply leads us to assume that if that chronology is true the fossils, complete with their geological and radioisotope age profiles were all created in 4004 BC. If the fundies actually accept the findings of astronomy and wish to remain consistent to the Biblical chronology, they must accept that the light from stars and galaxies millions and billion of light years away was created in transit around 4004 BC. So it's not a huge leap to assume the same for fossils and geological records. Of course, we could also be sensible and logical about it and see that the Biblical chronology doesn't work. It is probably even possible to retain a religious faith and accept the findings of science. Even the Vatican has acknowledged that the Big Bang occurred - a creation event if there ever was one.<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14495547587248198077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4307187040250193857.post-84319680679123068022016-01-02T07:03:22.899-08:002016-01-02T07:03:22.899-08:00Deep! And well done.Deep! And well done.Luanne Brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14450498466506556586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4307187040250193857.post-45573291768317425292016-01-02T07:02:34.930-08:002016-01-02T07:02:34.930-08:00Deep! And well done.Deep! And well done.Luanne Brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14450498466506556586noreply@blogger.com