Venus Mousetrap
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| Quote (lcd @ July 28 2008,20:00) | Well, my God does not need any defending. What is at issue is telling kids, mine especially, tales that are "just so". Like what I've seen, Evolution needs to be believed. That is not science. I know that I'm going to get hung out to dry, but I think it takes more to believe that things combined just so than to say, and I'll say it again, God did it.
What I am not happy to say that I see no science in the ID movement. In ID I do see things that can be used to make some believe in LGMs running around in the Universe. The ID movement tries to cover its tracks, but to do so, I am reminded of Matthew 26:34.
Good night all,
Ed |
The problem is, you likely don't understand the science, so you can't 'believe' in it. It's like the creationists who use their own ignorance as evidence against evolution (eg. Behe with 'I haven't read any papers which disprove me', the ID movement in general with 'I can't understand this therefore design')
I was arguing with a man from the Edinburgh Creation Group who believes that because he's made a model of the moon's orbit using a 2D model of simple Newtonian gravity, he's proven the Moon couldn't have formed (you can find this masterpiece at the Edinburgh Creation Group website). He apparently hasn't heard of angular momentum, many-body systems, precession, or relativity, all of which and more are essential to model planet formation and orbits, and when I told him of these, he said 'show me a model which works then!'.
Of course, I'm not a scientist. I can't. Even if I did, what would it mean to him? If he doesn't understand it, how can he accept the truth or falsity of it?
The same question goes to you. How can you accept evolution? Do you know what exactly evolution scientists do? How they make trees of relatedness? How they model natural selection? How important natural selection is? (the last one, even scientists don't know exactly).
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