| RockSmith372 said: as luck would have it today, my Bible teacher(i go to a private school. IT SUCKS!!!) was talking about how evolution is not "observable science". After my abrupt laughter, he put three key points about evolution 1. Life begets Life- Basically, he believes that evolutionists believe life was spontaneously generated, and then claimed that the second law of thermodynamics makes evolution impossible. I told him what the second law of thermodynamics states and how it has no implications against evolution. 2. Like begets Like- He said that life cannot give birth to anything new. He states all dogs are still dogs(a lot of people in my class didn't get the stupidity of that statement). He then express how he believes God made different "kinds"(which has no clear cut definition. If only God gave us the answer!) and those kinds branched out. 3. Missing Links- He then goes on to say how there are no transitional forms, and all claimed to be are frauds. He then quote mines Stephen J. Gould about his theory on punctuated equilibrium by saying Gould made the theory because it makes evolution make more sense. Alright. I would love to explain why all these statements are wrong, but I am going to ask one of you to show how idiotic my Bible teacher is |
Put simply your bible teacher is, as you put it "an idiot" because he is trying to use faith as justification for a scientific conclusion.
It doesn't work that way. Science is the pursuit of emperical truth, where religion is the pursuit of spiritual truth.
Put simply, there is no spiritual truth to be found in the minutia of biological mechanisms for the formation of life.
That's not to say religion has no role in the discussion of origination, but it should be careful not to conflate the question of "why are we here?" with "what steps did we take to get here?".
I simply don't see any conflict in believing that we are here by the act of a diety whose powers manifest in adherence to physical law. Most religious people seem to view their god as a rational thinking being who places a premium on order and at the very least is not fond of chaos. It is of absolute logic then for that deity to enact its intervention into mortal reality with mechanisms consistent with the laws of mortal reality, particularly when you're talking about a deity that wishes to leave no proof of existence and instead require people to believe through faith.
In short, the real oddity to me is that evolution is a topic in bible study when it truly has no bearing on rational theology. To the world of faith the fact that we are here is a far better point of contention for deism than arguing over the details of precisely what mechanisms brought us here. Particularly when any mechanism for our arrival is easily within the capability of an omnipotent being.
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