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<blockquote data-quote="atpollard" data-source="post: 75926842" data-attributes="member: 399371"><p>I don’t. His opening rant was pro-atheist because it was anti-faith. It had nothing to do with science and everything to do with his opponents and the irrational folly of faith. That is what made it an “atheist preaching to the choir”.</p><p></p><p>I enjoy TED talks and have a strong background in Chemistry and the Earth Sciences, so I am skeptical of some evolutionary claims (like life emerging from non-living chemicals in the time frame given) and I object to the change in the definition of species that if applied to people would make the French and Iranians two different species (like Darwin’s Finch), however I am not crushed by the thought of an earth that is older than 6000 years or the thought that all bears share a common ancestor.</p><p></p><p>That said, I am a Christian and a Fundamentalist and I am unwilling to dismiss Genesis as “myth” given the relative track records of the Bible and sciences like Archeology. I am old enough to remember being taught that the Hittites were a myth because there were no Iron Age civilizations prior to the Egyptian Bronze Age ... proof that Genesis was wrong about the Hittites and their iron and chariot wheels. So I am unwilling to swallow the Sagan hubris pill of “billions and billions” and prefer to remain a little more open.</p><p></p><p>To hear a Creationist talk, unless science can create intelligent life from a vat of chemicals, it has not proven evolution. To hear Evolutionists talk, they were there when single celled organisms evolved into multicellular lifeforms. Both sides seem too arrogant towards the other.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="atpollard, post: 75926842, member: 399371"] I don’t. His opening rant was pro-atheist because it was anti-faith. It had nothing to do with science and everything to do with his opponents and the irrational folly of faith. That is what made it an “atheist preaching to the choir”. I enjoy TED talks and have a strong background in Chemistry and the Earth Sciences, so I am skeptical of some evolutionary claims (like life emerging from non-living chemicals in the time frame given) and I object to the change in the definition of species that if applied to people would make the French and Iranians two different species (like Darwin’s Finch), however I am not crushed by the thought of an earth that is older than 6000 years or the thought that all bears share a common ancestor. That said, I am a Christian and a Fundamentalist and I am unwilling to dismiss Genesis as “myth” given the relative track records of the Bible and sciences like Archeology. I am old enough to remember being taught that the Hittites were a myth because there were no Iron Age civilizations prior to the Egyptian Bronze Age ... proof that Genesis was wrong about the Hittites and their iron and chariot wheels. So I am unwilling to swallow the Sagan hubris pill of “billions and billions” and prefer to remain a little more open. To hear a Creationist talk, unless science can create intelligent life from a vat of chemicals, it has not proven evolution. To hear Evolutionists talk, they were there when single celled organisms evolved into multicellular lifeforms. Both sides seem too arrogant towards the other. [/QUOTE]
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