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marc9000 Member Posts: 1522 From: Ky U.S. Joined: Member Rating: 1.3 |
Both Dr. Purdom and Ken Ham seem to agree on this point. The solution for creationism failing in the face of criticism is MORE INDOCTRINATION. That's not what they said. Just a different kind of education, one that realizes that science is just another imperfect human endeavor, that it's not the only source of knowledge. That there's no defined line where science stops and atheism starts.
As Libby Anne puts it:
quote: Creationists, is this really the new strategy? There’s really nothing new about it. To maintain one’s position, to double down is no different than what evolutionists did when Darwin’s Black Box came out, is it?
When it becomes apparent that creationist arguments can not stand up to criticism is it really the right move to protect creationism from any type of criticism? Is it different from the move made as evolution is protected from the criticism that ID makes of evolution? Have creationists tried to use the court system to protect something from criticism?
Is this why creationists are fighting so hard to get evolution out of the classroom? They’re trying to get atheism out of the classroom — the kind that converted Libby. It seems strange that Libby says this;
quote: And Kenneth Miller said this (Finding Darwin’s God, page 258)
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marc9000 Member Posts: 1522 From: Ky U.S. Joined: Member Rating: 1.3 |
The result is that the children abandon Creationism in droves and many, many end up as atheists. Of course it is not necessary; the choices are not Creationist or Atheist; but that's the dichotomy that folk like Ken Hamm create. People like Libby, Richard Dawkins, and countless others in science education seem to create that dichotomy also.
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marc9000 Member Posts: 1522 From: Ky U.S. Joined: Member Rating: 1.3 |
A different kind of education, eh? Things like magic, superstition, wishful thinking, old wives tales, folklore, what the stars foretell and what the neighbors think, omens, public opinion, astromancy, spells, Ouija boards, anecdotes, Da Vinci codes, tarot cards, sorcery, seances, sore bunions, black cats, divine revelation, table tipping, witch doctors, crystals and crystal balls, numerology, divination, faith healing, miracles, palm reading, the unguessable verdict of history, magic tea leaves, new age mumbo-jumbo, hoodoo, voodoo and all that other weird stuff? No, AIG doesn’t actually promote those things, it’s about worldviews. I’m not sure atheists recognize the word worldview, because they don’t seem to like their opinions to be on the same plane as others, they want to be superior, they want to be right enough to force their opinions on society, similar to the religion of Islam today, or the Christianity of Europe 200 years ago.
But back to the topic: AIG and all the others have to isolate their folks either through indoctrination or other means because their teachings can't stand the light of day. Creationists realize that science isn’t the only source of knowledge. I’ve mentioned it before once or twice at EvC and haven’t had much of any reaction to it, so I’ll try go into more detail than I have before; The light of day involves more than science. For one thing, creationists recognize the profoundness of the differences of humans from animals. Though some breeds of animals can be considered more intelligent than others, the differences (or comparisons of it) are many levels below humans. Humans have an enormous depth of emotion, and written history, all the way to its very beginning, shows that humans have always had it. Unless one has been programmed by an atheist/evolutionist education to believe that humans used to be just like animals, and gradually became aware of themselves while animals stayed exactly the same, it’s not hard for common sense logic to tell us that humans have always been able to plan ahead, solve problems, and re-arrange matter to benefit himself in ways far above what animals have ever been able to do. Central to Christianity is the belief that humans are a special creation. Light of day observations, (that don’t have anything to do with magic, superstition, wishful thinking, old wives tales, folklore etc.) tend to verify it. I could write many more paragraphs about what creationists see in the light of day, 1)the lack of transitional fossils that evolutionists desperately wish they had, 2)the order and obvious purpose we see in countless different natural systems of the world, from biology to astronomy,3) the lack of scientific ability to naturalistically explain the origins of life, 4)how well the behavior guidelines found in the Bible (money management, relations to others etc.) actually work. Richard Dawkins, on the first page of ‘The Blind Watchmaker’ says Biology is the study of complicated things that give the appearance of having been designed for a purpose. If they give that appearance, then that doesn’t have anything to do with magic, superstition, wishful thinking, old wives tales, folklore etc. It’s logical observances in the light of day. Then there is the other kind of light of day, the clear observances of very mysterious behavior of evolutionists. This thread has many examples. The opening post linked a testimony of someone who was transformed from a Christian to an atheist, by evolution. Very soon after, the standard evolutionist talking point pops up, that evolution and atheism don’t have a thing to do with each other! Let’s see, they’re both about naturalism, they both oppose creation and Intelligent Design, they both agree perfectly with other (sometimes controversial) sciences like astronomy, cosmology, geology, etc. Science/evolution is the only intellectual fulfillment atheism has, what atheist wouldn’t fully support evolution? Atheism and evolution compliment each other, support each other, and in the case of prominent people who support one or the other, they will almost always be passionate about the other. Yet the majority of them will immediately say, if challenged, that they don’t have a thing to do with each other. It’s just something that’s been said over and over enough times to be automatically accepted by the news media and the scientific community. But this kind of political correctness isn’t in the light of day, it’s in the darkness of a very narrow worldview. William Provine, an atheist, goes a long way in making it all understandable;
quote: It all makes sense how threads like this get started and where they go - the testimony of a religious student becoming an atheist because of a science education makes a statement that most in the scientific community favor, yet if a discussion ensues, if the atheism involved in science education gets brought up, then the desperate backpeddling that happens is easily explained by the few prominent atheists like William Provine who are actually honest.
And see signature, below... quote: I heartily agree with your signature. With a minor word change, more truth can be found; Atheistic belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.
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marc9000 Member Posts: 1522 From: Ky U.S. Joined: Member Rating: 1.3 |
But we all know marc does not consider you a christian. A very astute observation! Just like I know that not all atheists here consider him a Christian either. (See how I give atheists credit where credit is due?) I’d say he doesn’t entertain his fellow atheists here nearly as much as he thinks he does.
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marc9000 Member Posts: 1522 From: Ky U.S. Joined: Member Rating: 1.3 |
marc9000 writes: People like Libby, Richard Dawkins, and countless others in science education seem to create that dichotomy also. they do? could you show me somewhere anyone in science has said you either have to be an atheist or creationist nothing else? How about William Provine;
quote: http://nogod.tribe.net/...ce339d-7976-42cd-8f2b-1ff38246e495 "...this view of God is also worthless" - jar's messages make that very clear.
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marc9000 Member Posts: 1522 From: Ky U.S. Joined: Member Rating: 1.3 |
marc9000 writes: That there's no defined line where science stops and atheism starts. No, there's not. That's because they are two entirely different subjects, quite distinct from each other. They are not on a continuum. The laughable claim that evolution and atheism don’t have a thing to do with each other is probably the most prominent philosophical claim in all of science that really gets the attention of the vast majority of people who have little or no interest in the creation-evolution controversy. It begs the question — if the scientific community lies about this, what else do they lie about? This recent level of arousal of suspicion, which is a good thing, can be credited to the Intelligent Design movement. As William Dembski concisely puts it;
quote: The science that was in Darwin’s Black Box clashed with that atheist theology, and the resulting firestorm of criticism of that book made it clear. The only thing that the intellectual elite could do was make rules for something to become science, and try to keep those rules just out of the reach of intelligent design. And, whether they realized it at the time or not, much of their atheist philosophy also couldn’t measure up to their rules. Testability, is probably their one rule that causes them the most trouble, because some things about Darwinism, (and its associated science of abiogenesis) can’t actually be tested. One example of many concerns the fossil record that is embraced by the scientific community. As Dr Colin Patterson, a senior palaeontologist at the British Museum of Natural History, puts it;
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Those Fossils Are a Problem
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Quoted from Answers in Genesis from an evolutionist, important bolded and capitalized words provided by me at no extra cost. If Answers in Genesis were to close tomorrow, If the Discovery Institute were to close tomorrow, if there would never be another court case involving intelligent design, if intelligent design were to completely cease to exist tomorrow, the one thing it has accomplished will stand for generations, that is, making clear, and inspiring questions, about the fact that many of the intellectual elites in today’s atheist scientific community don’t actually have the intellectual justification to do many of the jobs they attempt to dowith tax money. They’re in control today, but will they be tomorrow?
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marc9000 Member Posts: 1522 From: Ky U.S. Joined: Member Rating: 1.3 |
And I suppose you can provide a link to where I say that I hold the same views as William Provine or agree with his assertion? I'VE SEEN YOU MOCK THE SPIRIT OF GOD BY CALLING HIM A "SHE". I've seen you claim that Christ "wasn't much of a Christian", I've seen you claim Christ isn't necessary for salvation, I've seen you agree with rabid atheists on just about everything. I don't expect you to agree with Provine, I'd expect anyone to look at the actions of "Christians" like you and make their own judgements about what he says.
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marc9000 Member Posts: 1522 From: Ky U.S. Joined: Member Rating: 1.3 |
marc9000 writes: Creationists realize that science isn’t the only source of knowledge. Scientists agree. The question is: Why do creationists want to call creationism science? To balance the current atheism that is in science. If you wonder what that atheism is, check out anything in science that doesn't measure up to the rules that have been established for intelligent design. Abiogenesis, the SETI Institute, or anything in Darwinism that is untestable, yet speculated on and proclaimed as science.
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