Originally posted by No Such Agency
Every opponent of evolutionary theory demands that scientists try to \"punch holes in his argument\".
His arguements state that evolution is wrong and he provides proofs. I was hoping for someone to show his proofs inaccurate.
And every single time, that \"argument\" is based on some weak-ass thing like
you know, dinosaurs are mentioned in the Bible or, for the slightly more literate,
hey the bacterial flagellum is irreducibly complex! All I could ever have to say on the subject is nicely encompassed in the many thousands of peer-reviewed articles which bolster and clarify the theory of evolution, written by better writers than myself, based on evidence they themselves discovered through years of hard work and observation.
... But since that\'s an unreasonable lot of reading,
http://www.talkorigins.org/origins/faqs-evolution.html. The talk.origins FAQs cover pretty much every aspect of evolutionary theory, from both \"this stuff is confusing\" and \"where\'s the proof\" perspectives.
If he was an honest man, he\'d have to divide that $250,000 up among all the living scientists who have ever discovered proof of what he calls macro-evolution (generally, species-dividing events). Divided equally, each lab-rat might go home with enough for a sucker from the corner store.
In ten years no one has even claimed it. He hasn\'t even needed to verify a claim - nobody is willing to step forward and say I have the proof.
I do not recognize \"creation science\" as science, it is BELIEF. And I will not debate science vs. belief, because it is not possible. The believer does not base their faith on facts, but on feeling, and facts will almost never be enough to sway them. Perhaps as it should be. But their feeling has NO place contesting the reality of what we can observe in the world around us.
Sincerely,
Allison Mackay
a biologist
put me down for evolutionism :beer:
