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Creationism Worrying the Richard Dawkins Crowd

Written by Paul Dean

Friday, 18 July 2008

“Atheist evangelist, Prof Richard Dawkins, speaking at the 20th anniversary of
the Edinburgh International Science Festival in April 2008, said the rise of
creationism in British schools raised a serious problem for science teachers. ‘
It is a very worrying trend,’ he said, ‘and I think a lot of it has come over
from America and Australia…I have spoken to a lot of science teachers in schools
here in Britain who are finding an increasing number of students coming to them
and saying they are Young Earth creationists. Now this is a belief that the
Earth is only 6000 years old, and it is such staggering mistake that it is very
concerning to hear this. It is no small error—it is equivalent to someone
believing, despite the evidence, that the width of North America from one coast
to the other is only 7.8 yards.’”

Of course, Richard Dawkins is basing his comments on assumptions that cannot be
proven and failing to differentiate between experimental science and historical
science. Christians have the high ground here, not only philosophically, but
even scientifically. For example, there are molecular limits to natural
selection; there is more evidence of rthe design of life; and the idea of
mutations which once fueled evolutionary thought is in fact its undoing.

On today’s edition of “Calling for Truth,” we’ll discuss philosophical,
scientific, and theological issues related to Creation. Our guest is Dr. Rob
Carter with Creation Ministries International. He obtained a BS in Applied
Biology from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1992. He then spent four
years teaching high school biology, chemistry, physics and electronics before
going to the University of Miami to obtain his PhD in Marine Biology. He
successfully completed this program in 2003 with a dissertation on “Cnidarian
Fluorescent Proteins.” While in Miami, he studied the genetics of pigmentation
in corals and other invertebrates, designed and built an aquaculture facility
for Caribbean corals, performed well over 500 SCUBA dives, many of them at
night, and licensed a spin-off product of his research (a patent-pending
fluorescent protein) to a biotech company.

Download the MP3

Comments

creationism = magic
Written by 'Guest' on 2008-07-18 21:05:43

Your "there is more evidence of rthe design of life" can be translated to "there is more evidence for MAGIC".

There isn't any evidence for magic. Magic is a childish idea and no real scientist takes it seriously.

Determining the age of the earth was one of the greatest achievements of the human race. You want to throw out all that hard work for religious reasons.

Apparently you're an evolution denier, which is no better than being a flat-earther. Every competent biologist in the world accepts the basic facts of biological evolution, because these facts have massive powerful evidence that you obviously don't even know about. Evidence from molecular biology and genetics has proven evolutionary relationships beyond any doubt. For example it's a fact that people share an ancestor with chimps. That fact is as strong as the fact our planet orbits the sun. I suppose it has religious implications. For example Christians worship Jesus, who like any other human, was a cousin of chimps. If people let religious implications get in their way of understanding science, they are harming their religion and guaranteeing its extinction. Religions must accommodate modern science because science will never care what any religion says.

C. David Parsons, author of The Quest fo
Written by 'Guest' on 2008-07-19 08:16:54

IN THE NEWS! A certain European country is in the final stage of reviewing The Quest for Right, a 7-book series on origins based on physical science, the old science of cause and effect. Upon the satisfactory completion of the review, they are prepared to place the books into their public schools.

For more information on the series, visit http://questforright.com

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