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Many
persons have a feeling that Evolution is a half baked idea proposed by a
morally bankrupt group of scientists who wish to further distance humanity from
their GOD. There are still booths set up
at county fairs all over the country where devoutly religious persons present
anyone who will listen with the reasons why Evolution is EVIL and Creation
Science is GOOD. There are lots of
pamphlets and videos which try bravely to decry and denigrate the evidence for
Evolution, mostly by citing a couple of the hoaxes that have been perpetrated
in the name of Science where ‘The
Nebraska Man and The Piltdown
Man were proposed fraudulently as
evolutionary steps between Apes and Homo Sapiens. Despite the fact that there have
been many findings of primitive hominids which are legitimate, the Creationists
don’t seem to be willing to let go of these two. This resistance to the letting go of the two
hoaxes is because the Creationists (The Literal ones) don’t have much good news
in support of their arguments other than those two.
What the
Creationists do, is claim that anyone who believes in Evolution must be an
Atheist in the hope that people will be afraid to believe in Evolution for fear
of being excommunicated or perhaps even imprisoned or stoned to death for
blasphemy!
What
Creationists fail to acknowledge is that a Lie, which is what they assert the
Theory of Evolution to be, cannot withstand close scrutiny. The more you look at it, the more it
crumbles. This,
is exactly the opposite of what is happening in the case of Evolution. Every place that Science looks for support
for the theory, that support is found.
More information comes in, almost on a weekly basis which provides more
support for the theory including DNA evidence, Evidence from the fossil record
and evidence from studying protein structure and phylogenetic progressions. We
are beginning to see that DNA may not have been the Genetic material for the
first life forms. RNA is actually seen
to be autocatalytic. It is possible,
considering that DNA replication cannot proceed without a primer of RNA, that
there was an RNA World which existed before DNA. New information is provided on this stuff on
an almost weekly basis and much of it can be found on the Web. Look around and see what news there is!
I am a
Scientist, and like other Scientists, I employ the Scientific method in my
determinations about anything. The Scientific
Method says that we can only form conclusions from testable hypotheses. It is possible to attempt to find and
obviously to find evidence supporting the Theory of Evolution. It is impossible to scientifically assess the
existence of GOD or of God’s involvement in anything. We in Science do not accept The Bible or any
other Holy Book as an authoritative source for support of any ideas due to the
fact that it is impossible to assess its validity. What proof can we find concerning anything
contained in their pages?
Since
this is the case (Face it The Bible wasn’t very good at citing Earth as the
center of the Universe), the only place we can find evidence in support of
anything is in well designed experiments.
There is no way to assess the presence of GOD. You either believe or not. Evolution, on the
other hand can be assessed and has been pretty well proven. Does that mean that there is no GOD? No, not at all. You still believe or not. If anyone believes
that Evolution and God are mutually exclusive, they don’t have much faith. God, if you believe in GOD is certainly
capable of designing things through Evolution.
The elegance of the DNA molecule and the simple Perfection of The
Genetic Code, what a glorious achievement.
To have begun with simple Proto-Cells (Progenotes) and to then arrive at
the wondrous diversity of form and function that we see around us, what an
effective testimonial to the power and grandeur of God! At least it is such if you believe. If you don’t believe, the process is still wondrous
and that’s the beauty of it!
So, next
time you see one of those booths with those sad individuals who are so
threatened by something which supports in ways they evidently cannot
understand, the power and magnificence of the Master Architect feel sympathy for them, they know not what
they do, nor how much energy they are wasting which could be directed at doing
constructive things!
Evolution
is a process which is not happening because we believe in it folks! It is
happening because that is the way things are!
Our
belief or lack thereof are unable to turn aside the
facts or to color them in any other way but with the brush of truth.