I HAD Nothing to Say but "WOW"
Go to CreationScience.com and read a few articles, then go to: Evangelical Scientists Refute Gravity With New ‘Intelligent Falling’ Theory.I’ve reached two conclusions today with reading a good portion of the Astrophysics section at CreationScience.com and this other article:
First, if all creation-scientists are as solidly scientific, soundly logical, and purely objective as Walt Brown, Ph. D. and author of In the Beginning: Compelling Evidence for Creation and the Flood, the book found online at CreationScience.com, well, then I am a confirmed evolutionist. I held a much higher regard for all of creation science before my perusal through Dr. Brown’s debacle into the world of science.
Second, so called “scientists” such as the esteemed Dr. Brown are far more of an impediment to the cause of Christ as a whole, but even more specifically, to the cause of creation science, than any sort of help… even if what they’re saying is entirely true!
Why? The whole self-righteous tone that says, “You can’t handle the truth, so you spend your life in denial” tone combined with the creationist conspiracy theory (read: “the entire world of science is bent on the agenda of preserving the sacred evolutionary cow -- it is an ancestor, after all”). Then… creation scientist like to say that evolutionary theory takes a greater leap of faith than believing in God and seven day creation. Well, trying to believe what Dr. Brown is saying takes a far greater leap, a giant leap in logic – many times over. Get this:
“Many people, including Carl Sagan, predicted the Viking landers would find life on Mars. They reasoned that because life evolved on Earth, some form of life must have evolved on Mars. That prediction proved to be false. The arms of the Viking 1 Lander… sampled Martian soil. Sophisticated tests performed on those samples did not find even a trace of life.” (emphasis mine). Did you catch the leap in logic? Let me repeat a joke my Linear Algebra prof. told to emphasize the point.
A theoretical mathematician, an applied mathematician, and an engineer were riding together in a train. As the train came out of a tunnel, the trio spotted a white sheep grazing beside the track.
“Look,” said the engineer, “that sheep is white. This proves all sheep must be white!”
“No, no, no,” said the applied mathematician, “one white sheep doesn’t prove all sheep are white. It only proves that sheep is white.”
“You chaps are both wrong,” chimed the theoretical mathematician. “All that we can prove is that one half of that one particular sheep appears to be white.”
Ok, now think about Dr. Brown’s statement. A couple of samples taken from two particular soil types (that due to the constraints on landing sites were quite similar) on two locations (that we know to be some of the most inhospitable regions on Mars) on a body 1/3 the size of planet earth proves there is no life on Mars? Using that logic I can definitively prove that there is no life on earth. There is a desert on earth that is so dry, it is absolutely inhospitable to life. Not even bacteria lives there! (source: Discovery Channel. Sorry I can’t quote date, time, and program). If some alien culture sent a probe to earth and had it land in this desert, then did tests for life, they could just as readily conclude there was no life on earth. I don’t know what you’re thinking right now, but whatever it was, that thought just proved Dr. Brown hasn’t got the firmest grip on this science/logic thing. He doesn’t stop there. He uses his ‘proof’ that life doesn’t exist on Mars as proof there is no life in the universe.
I could go on… In fact, I think I will for awhile. Check his references, especially where regarding what science doesn’t know about things. For some reason, he seems to like sources from the 60s or 70s or even earlier for these quotes. Of course, I have no idea why.
That’s quite enough for now. I have successfully spewed far beyond the two links I was planning on posting. I’m going to pretend to go to sleep now before I get really mad.
posted by Lauren @ Wednesday, November 23, 2005
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