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Bill Gray said:

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We are not rejecting evolution in the form of adaptation; for we know that over time people, animals, and plants do adapt to environmental changes.


If you can accept that such environmental factors affect phenotypical characteristics, they why can you not accept speciation as a result of this?

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What we, and the Bible, reject is the Darwinian form of evolution which states that some quadrillion years ago, there existed in a dark primordial swamp,


Quadrillion? Hardly. More like 4 billion, which all of the scientific data suggests. And it isn't just biology -- there are reasons to accept that date based on physics and cosmology as well.

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somewhere in a dark jungle -- one simple little non-life cell; just a simple little fellow floating around, containing no life whatsoever.


A cell by definition is life (both prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells contain DNA), but let us not be concerned with such semantic technicalities. It interferes with a good story.

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Then, suddenly the miracle occurred: viola!


Aren't miracles exactly what you theologists rely upon for an explanation?

Just because the exact mechanism isn't known or understood doesn't make it "miraculous." Scientists have never said the introduction of life on this planet was miraculous. You are making that up.

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life appears from non-life! Of course, science tells us this cannot happen;


Not really. In physics, the Law of the Conservation Of Energy says, for instance, that energy cannot be created or destroyed, only changed. But we know that this was likely not always the case since the laws of the universe as they are observed now were likely different than what they were "prior" to the Big Bang.

In evolution, just because life cannot be created from scratch in a test tube doesn't mean there won't be a future explanation for how it did begin from the primordial soup. All organisms on this planet evolved from a single parent organism (even you admit that species change and adapt based on environments -- and if you follow this to its logical conclusion, you get speciation). Humans evolved from apes, and prior to that, fish. Before that, amoebas, and before that -- prokaryotic cells.


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that you cannot have life come from non-life; that you cannot have matter appear from non-matter.


But Special Relativity states that you can have matter created from energy and vice versa ( E=mc^2). Einstein proved that. Matter and energy, to simplify it a bit, are different ways of looking at the same thing. Now how does this apply to the discussion?

Quantum mechanics states that there are microscopic "fluctuations" in the quantum vacuum that are more or less unpredictable. This is according to the "Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle" which has been tested experimentally. Since these fluctuations are essentially energy, it is hard to say that energy truly is conserved under extreme conditions like with the quantum vacuum.

Further, the law of the Conservation of Energy only makes sense if Time is involved. Since time cannot be defined in a singularity, the truth is one cannot use macroscopic laws when talking about the Big Bang. Space and Time were "created" with the Big Bang. The Big Bang did not occur independent of empty space/time. So, in a sense, to ask what happened "before" the Big Bang is like asking what is north of the north pole.

On the metaphysical side of the argument: it makes no sense to say that something came from nothing since nothing cannot be defined. So for those theologians who say "something can't come from nothing." I ask them to define nothing. They can't. Wink

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Now, to the next step. After life suddenly appeared in that lifeless simple cell -- then, it evolved into a lemur.


That's not what they say. See above.

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Don't ask me why the lemur and not the toad frog. I have no idea. Actually, I would have thought the toad frog would have been the logical first live animal; since it loves the water and the swamps. It could have survived in the primordial swamp -- instead of having to live in trees like the lemur.


No one ever said Lemurs were the first step in human evolution. You are simply misunderstanding what the theory does say.

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Have you ever wondered where that swamp and the trees came from -- if there was no Biblical creation?


Yeah, they came from prokayrotic cells just like all other life.

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And, eventually, one of those monkeys or apes decided, "I want to be a man.


That statement deserves nothing but a big, fat LOL.

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I am sorry; I guess I am just not smart enough or educated enough to have that much faith. Like the flow of a river; my faith takes the path of least resistance -- and I believe in the Genesis story of creation. It takes a lot less faith than the Darwinian theory -- and promises a much better eternal future.


How does Genesis take less faith? Genesis explains the mechanism behind nothing.

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