Phillip E. Johnson, in Evolution as Dogma: The Establishment of Naturalism, states:
In fact, there is a great deal more to the creation/evolution controversy than meets the eye, or rather than meets the carefully cultivated media stereotype of “creationists” as Bible-quoting-know-nothings who refuse to face up to the scientific evidence. The creationists may be wrong about many things, but they have at least one very important point to argue, a point that has been thoroughly obscured by all the attention paid to Noah’s flood and other side issues. What science educators propose to teach as “evolution”, and label as fact, is based not upon any incontrovertible empirical evidence (scientifically proven facts, ed.), but upon a highly controversial philosophical presupposition. The controversy over evolution is therefore not going to go away as people become better educated on the subject. On the contrary, the more people learn about the philosophical content of what scientists are calling the “fact of evolution”, the less they are going to like it.
By the way, Mr. Johnson is a 1st Amendment attorney, teaching law at the University of California, Berkley and NOT observing from a Christian worldview…moving on…
G.A. Kerkut, in Implications of Evolution, states:
There are seven basic assumptions that are often not mentioned during discussions of evolution. Many evolutionists ignore the first six assumptions and only consider the seventh. The assumptions are as follows:
1. The first assumption is that non-living things gave rise to living material, i.e., spontaneous generation occurred.
2. The second assumption is that spontaneous generation occurred only once.
3. The third assumption is that viruses, bacteria, plants and animals are all related.
4. The fourth assumption is that protozoa (single-celled life forms) gave rise to metazoa (multiple-celled life forms).
5. The fifth assumption is that various invertebrate phyla are interrelated.
6. The sixth assumption is that the invertebrates gave rise to the vertebrates.
7. The seventh assumption is that within the vertebrates the fish gave rise to amphibia, the amphibia to reptiles and the reptiles to birds and mammals.
That’s a lot of ASSUMPTIONS. Another special note, G.A. Kerkut writes from the standpoint of an EVOLUTION indoctrinated scientist, yet still renders the application of faith to his “Science”.
But wait…there’s more…much, much more…
Dr. Harrison Matthews, the writer of the “Introduction” to Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, states:
The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an unproved theory – is it then a science or a faith? Belief in the theory of evolution is thus exactly parallel to belief in special creation – both are concepts which believers know to be true, but neither, up to the present, has been capable of proof.
Okay, perhaps one more from the EVOLUTION SCIENTIST COMMUNITY'S own words for this post…then, if need be, more in the future…
Dr. Ernst Mayr, in Omni Magazine, February, 1983, p. 78, states:
We had an international conference in Rome in 1981 on the mechanisms of speciation. It was attended by many of the leading botanists, zoologists, paleontologists, geneticists, cytologists and biologists. The one thing on which they all agreed was that we still have absolutely no idea what happens genetically during speciation. That’s a damning statement, but it’s the truth.
This posting has been exhaustively long for the average reader, though, I’m still only scratching the surface, “You really have no idea how much information is out there.”…I remember hearing that somewhere.
To conclude, I found this amusing, from a well-known and respected authority on science backed by a Christian world view:
Dr. Henry Morris, in Unlocking the Mysteries of Creation, states:
Unknown chemicals in the primordial past…through…
Unknown processes which no longer exist…produced…
Unknown life forms which are not to be found but could through…
Unknown reproduction methods spawn life…in an…
Unknown atmospheric composition…in an…
Unknown oceanic soup complex…at an…
Unknown time and place.
What you must admit is that evolution theory is only a predilection, the same as creation theory. We can both see the facts – the “What”, but we interpret the “When”, “How”, “Where”, “Who” behind them differently. Furthermore, the holding to our respective “Why” is what locks us so controversially into the realm of faith.
copyright 2005. travis marshall iv
