Posted by
Jason Cunningham on Tuesday, May 27, 2008 5:13:52 PM
The primary point of Ben Stein's movie "Expelled" is highly valid, and appropo to my last post: The science establishment shouldn't be dogmatically loyal to anything other than what verifiable empirical evidence shows to be indisputable ... and evolution hardly fits that bill.
Let me again be clear: I'm not opposed to the possibility that species-to-species evolution is real. I'm also unconvinced that God's act of creation was a literal 6-day process that occurred no more than 12,000 years ago. I'm a Christian who believes that God is responsible for the creation of everything that does exist, ever has existed or ever will exist in the universe, including the universe itself, and that He could have employed (or could still be employing) species-to-species evolution as one of His creative methods.
All of that said, I also believe that evolution (at least, as we understand it) could not account for the origin of life (because something cannot evolve from nothing), and that today's science establishment is woefully closed off to the idea of "following wherever the evidence leads." I understand that God cannot be empirically "proved" (physically weighed, measured, etc.), but it's absolutely absurd that Big Science refuses to even entertain the possibility that there's a design in nature and, therefore, that there may be an intelligence behind it all. Nor should the textbooks or other science literature of public (taxpayer-funded) educational institutions be telling that students that evolution equals atheism, or that atheism is essential to a proper approach to science, or that the pursuit of science inevitably leads to atheism.