3. If a valid reason to doubt evolution ever did come along, it would be ridiculed as anti-science and associated with creationism.
Meldinoor writes:
Inflicting doubt among believers by claiming that the only way to interpret the Bible is from a Young Earth Perspective, forcing them to choose between their faith and scientific evidence.
I experienced this a couple of years after I joined the debate. People I respected had always told me that evolution was an obviously false idea promoted by atheists to undermine Genesis. I believed them. Then I joined a debate forum like this one. I found out, over the course of two years, why young earth creationism isn’t a scientifically defensible position. One person in particular, an agnostic biologist, was particularly helpful. He walked me through most of the debate, point by point. After those two years were over, I was ready to reject both creationism and my faith.
At that point, out of curiosity, I got a copy of
Darwin’s Blackbox from the library. Frankly, that book changed the course of my life. Unlike any of the dozen or so YEC books I had read, Behe took the time to extensively discuss the objections to his work. After reading the book and going through his online articles, I was able to present a reasonably defensible case for intelligent design to the same evolutionary biologist who had shredded my creationist beliefs. Afterwords, I continued to study other aspects of ID and became more open minded about Genesis.
Forgive me, Father, for I know not what I do.
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