CF writes:
As for this guy, Dr. Grady McMurtry, the link you gave says it all...
He earned his science degrees as an evolutionist, but he did not become a biblical creationist until more than a year after he committed his life to Christ.
McMurtry is the precise example of what I was describing; individuals who would never have taken creationism on its own merits, but adopt it because they already hold Christian beliefs.
Let me see if I understand what you are saying here. This guy was an evolutionist, at some point he committed his life to christ but did not become a biblical creationist until more than a year had passed after his conversion into christianity. So for at least a year, he most likely studied the bible before he was finally convinced of the creationist viewpoint. I would have though he would have become a creationist immediately following his conversion but apparently this was not the case. Apparently, and this is only speculation on my part, he studied, learned, and then believed.
Are you suggesting that evolutionists first believe in the theory of evolution, and then study and learn what it teaches?
That is not how it worked with me. I studied and learned, eventually believing what the evidence truly showed, that microevolution has, is, and will continue to happen. That macroevolution is a myth, rooted in ancient beliefs, has been modernized to fit todays secularized methodology, and is taught as fact despite the overwhelming evidence against it.
How about you? Did you believe in evolution before studying or did you study before believing? Did you study the evidence before becoming a believer or did you simply adopt the teachings, accepting them as true because you already held to a belief in evolution?
The theory of evolution is a viable theory, absent the myth of macroevolution.
Once the myth of macroevolution is included, the viability of the theory of evolution vanishes as it slowly evolves into just another example of an implausible story,
nestled amongst the numerous fairytale's of our youth.-----DarkStar