Quote (Durance Of Love @ May 10 2011 07:41am)
My bad then. I guess I was still on your point about: "bacterial resistance to penicillin is enough to validate evolution theory." Since micro-evolution is clearly not evidence for speciation I must have just misread your response to Njag.
I believe my first post reflected that too: "have found no compelling reason to believe that evolution is correct". I didn't say that evolution was impossible, just that I've seen no definitive evidence on the subject. The fact that it's paraded as fact and taught as such bothers me because then discoveries are seen through the prism of a 4 billion year old earth instead of taken as evidences to other plausible theories on their own merit.
@Njag: The textbook point is what sticks in my craw. Fabricated evidence (numerous missing links, vestigial organs, certain index fossils, etc.) to support a theory that, on the whole, dismisses a creator and by extension Christianity. The same people turn around and blame the bible of being a fairy tale when it is a scientifically accurate book in it's claims and in fact ahead of it's time for when it was penned. When you're dogmatic about what you teach our children (especially if it's wrong), it's that much harder for them to see both sides of things.
what parts of the bible are you refering to?