Vox Day's demolition of Darwin's Theory of Evolution

[RC Tent]

Describe how - objectively.

I started a new thread on this.

 

[RC Tent]

In other words, it means that the different opinions of God depend on each individual person.

See my post above.

 

[Job 33:6]

And yet whenever this is pointed out by someone who holds beliefs that defy current scientific consensus their credibility is questioned because they know this.

Tell that to Einstein or alfered wegener. Didn't stop them though. Objective evidence corroborated with physical reality, prevails.

 

[RC Tent]

Tell that to Einstein or alfered wegener. Didn't stop them though. Objective evidence corroborated with physical reality, prevails.

I have not seen either of them deriding people for knowing that science changes with the evidence.

 

[Job 33:6]

I have not seen either of them deriding people for knowing that science changes with the evidence.

I'm just pointing out that criticism of ideas is common and happens to everyone. But If what the person is saying, is backed by the evidence, they will win out regardless.

Unfortunately, young earthers have been arguing against geologists and biologists for hundreds of years. Their support has only declined.

 

[The Barbarian]

I remember when I was in college, Wegener's theory of continental drift was not accepted by most geologists. Then, when mid-oceanic ridges were discovered to be centers of seafloor spreading, his ideas were quickly adopted. My copy of Nevin's Structural Geology (1931) dismisses Wegener's ideas, while remaining open to any demonstration of a means by which continents might actually move great distances.
Wyllie's The Way the Earth Works, (1971) has a very good description of the changes in thinking right after those discoveries.

Worth reading both, to get some idea of the way science works through such controversies.

 

[The Barbarian]

And yet whenever this is pointed out by someone who holds beliefs that defy current scientific consensus their credibility is questioned because they know this

If my barber tells me that my auto mechanic doesn't know what he's doing, I take that for what it's worth. If another certified mechanic tells me this, I pay more attention.

For the obvious reasons. It does matter if one knows what one is talking about.

 

[paul becke]

Perhaps you'd do better by learning what "theory" means. It's an idea or set of ideas that have been repeatedly verified by evidence. See above to learn about some of the evidence, or if you can't find it, I'll show you some.



Evolutionary theory is not physics. Try again.



(Barbarian checks) Nope. Still making useful new discoveries. But as you just learned, this isn't about physics.



Don't see how that's going to get your house built, your computer designed, or your medical diagnoses.



Einstein was a Spinozian deist. Newton was an Arian, who believed the Trinity was a later insertion into the Bible. Boltzmann wasn't particularly religious. Shrodinger referred to himself as an atheist. I don't agree with any of those on religion, but I wouldn't call them "religious nuts."

So, from your list, only Schrodinger described himself as an atheist. And I wouldn't put him up with Einstein and Newton. Newton eventually claimed to despise mathematics, in favour of his version of deism.

 

[The Barbarian]

So, from your list, only Schrodinger described himself as an atheist. And I wouldn't put him up with Einstein and Newton. Newton eventually claimed to despise mathematics, in favour of his version of deism.

Newton was closest to being an Arian, rather than a deist. But it was complex; he wasn't an orthodox anything.