“Even if all of the data point to an intelligent designer, such a hypothesis is excluded from science because it is not naturalistic. “ -Todd, S. C. 1999. A view from Kansas on that evolution debate. Nature. 401 (6752): 423.
He's right there, science doesn't deal with the supernatural. So what?
(EDIT: No data points to a designer BTW)
“It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us to accept a material explanation of the phenomenal world, but, on the contrary, that we are forced by our a priori adherence to material causes to create an apparatus of investigation and a set of concepts that produce material explanations, no matter how counter-intuitive, no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated. Moreover, that materialism is an absolute, for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door.”
-Richard Lewontin, Billions and billions of demons, The New York Review, p. 31, 9 January 1997.
Again, so what? Science deals with the natural world.
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At this point, it is necessary to reveal a little inside information about how scientists work, something the textbooks don't usually tell you. The fact is that scientists are not really as objective and dispassionate in their work as they would like you to think. Most scientists first get their ideas about how the world works not through rigorously logical processes but through hunches and wild guesses. As individuals they often come to believe something to be true long before they assemble the hard evidence that will convince somebody else that it is. Motivated by faith in his own ideas and a desire for acceptance by his peers, a scientist will labor for years knowing in his heart that his theory is correct but devising experiment after experiment whose results he hopes will support his position.” -Boyce Rensberger, How the World Works, William Morrow, NY, 1986, pp. 17–18. Rensberger is an ardently anti-creationist science writer. See refutation of his Washington Post article attacking creation.
What?!?! Scientists aren't perfect!!?!
Tell me, who is sequencing the human genome in an attempt to treat diseases like cancer, diabetes etc?
Who is doing stem cell research to give us greater access to organs for transplants?
Who has developed anti-viral therapies helping HIV patients live longer?
Who discovered water on Mars?
Who finds deposits of fossil fuels?
Who discovered evidence of plate tectonics?
At least science helps us to understand the world around us and provides tangible results that can make countless lives better. Contrast that with "creation science" which is satisfied with whining and taking pathetic, failed swipes against mainstream science. If "creation science" ceased to exist today the only difference it would make to our lives is that there would be less inaccurate and dishonest websites for the likes of you to plagiarize.
‘Science … is not so much concerned with truth as it is with consensus. What counts as “truth”? is what scientists can agree to count as truth at any particular moment in time … [Scientists] are not really receptive or not really open-minded to any sorts of criticisms or any sorts of claims that actually are attacking some of the established parts of the research (traditional) paradigm — in this case neo-Darwinism — so it is very difficult for people who are pushing claims that contradict the paradigm to get a hearing. They’ll find it difficult to [get] research grants; they’ll find it hard to get their research published; they’ll, in fact, find it very hard.’ Professor -Evelleen Richards, Science Historian, University of NSW, Australia, Lateline, 9 October 1998, Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Who or what is Richards talking about specifically?
“evolutionist reject as a matter of printable not because of evidence “
-F.M harold 2001 the way of the cell molecules organisms and the order of life oxford university press new york new york
That doesn't even makes sense. Reject what? It's meaningless with out context.
“I want atheism to be true and am made uneasy by the fact that some of the most intelligent and well informed people I know are religious believers. It inset just that I dont believe in god and naturally, hope there is no god, I dont want there to be a god, I dont wont the universe to be like that.
-Philosopher Thomas nagel the last word,oxford university press new york 1997 p 30
What's that got to do with geology or biology? Who cares about Nagel's religious views? They're totally irrelevant to your "arguments".
Evolution is promoted by its practitioners as more than mere science. Evolution is promulgated as an ideology, a secular religion—a full-fledged alternative to Christianity, with meaning and morality. I am an ardent evolutionist and an ex-Christian, but I must admit that in this one complaint—and Mr [sic] Gish is but one of many to make it—the literalists are absolutely right. Evolution is a religion. This was true of evolution in the beginning, and it is true of evolution still today... Evolution therefore came into being as a kind of secular ideology, an explicit substitute for Christianity.’
-Michael Ruse was professor of philosophy and zoology at the University of Guelph,
He's welcome to his opinion. Have you read his article? (I should imagine that you've just plagiarized the quote from a creationist website, it's quite pathetic really).
He finishes the article....
"What is the moral to be drawn from all of this? You might think that the time has come to save evolution from the evolutionists.
Darwinism is a terrific theory that stimulates research in every area of the life sciences. In the human realm, for instance, discoveries in Africa trace our immediate past in ever greater detail, while at the same time the Human Genome Project opens up fascinating evolutionary questions as we learn of the molecular similarities between ourselves and organisms as apparently different as fruit flies and earthworms. Surely this is enough.
There is no need to make a religion of evolution. On its own merits, evolution as science is just that -- good, tough, forward-looking science, which should be taught as a matter of course to all children, regardless of creed."
Pretty much the opposite of your view is it not? Do you still value his opinion?
“I suppose the reason we why we lept at the orgin of species was that the idea of god interfered with our sexual mores-
-sir julien Huxley
Source? After that last one I'm starting to doubt how representative of the authors views some of these "quotes" are.
I had motive for not wanting the world to have a meaning; consequently assumed that it had none, and was able without any difficulty to find satisfying reasons for this assumption. The philosopher who finds no meaning in the world is not concerned exclusively with a problem in pure metaphysics, he is also concerned to prove that there is no valid reason why he personally should not do as he wants to do, or why his friends should not seize political power and govern in the way that they find most advantageous to themselves. … For myself, the philosophy of meaninglessness was essentially an instrument of liberation, sexual and political.’
-Huxley, A., Ends and Means, 1937, pp. 270 ff.
So what, this has nothing to do with the topic at hand.
"evolution is a anti-scientific fable intended to avoid accountability to god"
-2011 Dr David stone laser physicists with 5 degrees including PHD in mechanical endangering from Michigan state U creation mag 34 [1] 2012
Creationist engineer expresses negative opinion about mainstream biology. Shock horror!
It's also complete crap, and probably offensive to many Christian biologists.
“Evolution can better be understood as the pseudo-scientific justification for a life lived without accountability to ones maker.”
-John D Morris and Frank Sherwin the fossil Record 2017
Ditto.
“Our theories are more statements about us and our ideology than about the past. Paleontology revels more about how humans view themselves than it does about how humans came about. But that is Hersey”
-Piloeans review of Leakey's origins in American Statistic may-june 1978
These quotes are getting more meaningless as we proceed.
But again, so what? Maybe "
Paleontology revels more about how humans view themselves than it does about how humans came about." That doesn't make it wrong.
“People dont believe lies because they have to, but because they want to”
-Malcolm Muggeridge
Irrelevant. He's not talking about biology or geology, it seems that you are getting desperate.
The western world have never had the chance to learn creation thinking and know only evolution. Naturalism enjoys a virtual monopoly in today's classrooms, while instructors who have been schooled only in naturalistic worldview play the part of evolutionary evangelist.”
-John D Morris and Frank J Sherwin The Fossil Record 2017
Because science deals with the natural world, derp. What's "creation thinking" ever achieved?
“Simply put most people believe in evolution because most people believe in evolution. It is all they have ever been taught. If creation is ever mentioned it is ridiculed and unfairly catheterized, thus, evolution is assumed, not proved and creation is denied, not refuted”
-John Morris The Young earth
Creationist engineer expresses negative opinion about mainstream biology. Shock horror!
So what?
“Absolute stranglehold materialistic atheism has on every thought that is allowed to be considered in the scientific and educational realms. This makes the American classroom one of the most censored, thought-controlled locations on the planet.”
-John Morris and Frank Sherwin The Fossil Record: Unearthing Nature's History of Life 2017
LOL, hyperbole much?
“the idea of a cooly rational scientific observer, completely independent free of all preconceived theories prior philosophical, ethical and religious commitments doing investigations and coming to dispassionate unbias conclusions that constitute truth, is nowadays regarded by serious philosophers of science and indeed most scientist as a simplistic myth”
-professor John Lennox, fellow in mathematics and philosophy of science oxford university
He's correct, no one is "
completely independent free of all preconceived theories prior philosophical, ethical and religious commitments" but again, so what?
It doesn't make established science wrong.
“The stereotype of a rational and objective scientific method and individual scientist as logical and interchangeable robots is self-serving mythology”
- evolutionist Stepehn j Gould in the mind of the beholder natural history 103 feb 1994
Ditto.
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All you've done with these quotes is demonstrate the shallow and desperate tactics the creationist will sink to to try and validate his viewpoint. Some misrepresent the authors viewpoint, some are from unverifiable sources, most are irrelevant to the discussion at hand.
NONE of them provide any meaningful insight and more importantly offer NONE offer any challenge to the results of mainstream science.
It is obvious that they are merely pagiarized from some creationist website and you have read NON of the source material.
E- Must try harder