| Response to Canberra Times Darwin article |
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| Written by Bill Morris |
| Saturday, 17 January 2009 16:45 |
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I am responding to Mark Steel’s editorial Opinion (Creation tunes in Darwin discord, 8 January 2009, Canberra Times Opinion, page 9). In his over-zealous fundamentalist Darwinistic diatribe Mr Steel is at best ill-informed and bigoted. At worst he is deliberately misleading in his lambasting of Creationism and Intelligent Design (ID). Space will not permit me to provide a comprehensive rebuttal of his spurious arguments in entirety. I suggest that he thoroughly researches a Creationist website for an understanding of why his arguments are lame, tired and bizarre. It is not Creation or Christianity that is forced on people, it is Darwinism. And Darwinism is actually a faith based belief system drawn from an interpretation of what Steel calls evidence. I assume Steel alludes to the rock and fossil record but finding a fossil does not provide evidence of evolution. It merely shows that the remains or imprint of an animal or plant were preserved in a rock layer at an unknown time. Scientists must then interpret, according to their worldview, how and when that specimen was preserved and what relationship it has to other fossils and living things. No fossil has a date stamped on it. Two forensic methods that might be employed to determine the age—Carbon dating and radiometric dating—require assumptions at the outset. These assumptions will be based on the scientists’ worldview, thus creating a circular argument. Interestingly, rocks formed by volcanic action in living memory can provide radiometric dates of thousands or millions of years. In this case the eye witness evidence takes precedence over the forensic evidence. Despite Steel’s unqualified ranting, the Bible provides an eyewitness account of both a creation scenario and a flood scenario when it is possible that many fossils were laid down. If Steel laid aside his preconceptions and biases, he would find that the evidence fits the Biblical scenario far better than Darwin’s evolution by accident scenario. In the 21st Century, Darwin’s antiquated theory of evolution has been thoroughly refuted by Christian and secular scientists alike. In Steel’s final paragraph, sounding as if he might be foaming at the mouth, he asks “Why, why, why” issuing a challenge to ID people to answer his questions. Perhaps they will when he asks an intelligent question. Pastor Bill Morris
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