ragordon168
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we could always phone the 'operator' like trinity does in the matrix, then again hes probably busy listening to prayers and youd end up talking to an answering machine
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An Honest and Intelligent Creationist
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Well the world appears to be flat...but it isn't. The moon appears to be a tiny circle of light in the sky...but it isn't. The table appears to be solid matter, with no empty space, but it isn't. (It's mostly empty space.) Stars appear to be tiny dots, but they're not. The sun appears to rotate around the earth, but it doesn't. Science is about figuring out what's really going on despite appearances. However, if you're content with appearances...you may be a YEC.
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Evolution is not a theory in crisis. It is not teetering on the verge of collapse. It has not failed as a scientific explanation. There is evidence for evolution, gobs and gobs of it. It is not just speculation or a faith choice or an assumption or a religion. It is a productive framework for lots of biological research, and it has amazing explanatory power. There is no conspiracy to hide the truth about the failure of evolution. There has really been no failure of evolution as a scientific theory. It works, and it works well....(from the blog)
Todd C. Wood education consisted of B.S. Biology, Liberty University, Virginia in 1994. He got his Ph.D. in Biochemistry at the University of Virginia in 1999 and did his post-doc at the University of Clemson in 2000. Todd Wood's professional experience include assistant professor of natural sciences, at Bryan College in Tennessee from 2000 to now.
btw, this is the guy who defined "kind" for us as the actualization of a potentiality region at any
point or period in history (including but not limited
to all of history). The baramin can include all
organisms created within a potentiality region (Wises
archaebaramin), all of their descendents, or all of the
extant organisms from a potentiality region. Critical
to the definition of the baramin is that it encompasses
all of the members of a potentiality region alive at any
given time. Since it is unlikely that all members of a
potentiality region can actually be known, the baramin
is a purely theoretical construct.
This is an educated man who knows science and knows that it works, and rejects it in favor of magic. Bizarre.
btw I heard of another one whose name I can't remember, a geologist who saw that all of geology contradicted his YEC Christianity, and who ended up giving up science as a result.
Evolution is not a theory in crisis. It is not teetering on the verge of collapse. It has not failed as a scientific explanation. There is evidence for evolution, gobs and gobs of it. It is not just speculation or a faith choice or an assumption or a religion. It is a productive framework for lots of biological research, and it has amazing explanatory power. There is no conspiracy to hide the truth about the failure of evolution. There has really been no failure of evolution as a scientific theory. It works, and it works well....(from the blog)
Todd C. Wood education consisted of B.S. Biology, Liberty University, Virginia in 1994. He got his Ph.D. in Biochemistry at the University of Virginia in 1999 and did his post-doc at the University of Clemson in 2000. Todd Wood's professional experience include assistant professor of natural sciences, at Bryan College in Tennessee from 2000 to now.
btw, this is the guy who defined "kind" for us as the actualization of a potentiality region at any
point or period in history (including but not limited
to all of history). The baramin can include all
organisms created within a potentiality region (Wises
archaebaramin), all of their descendents, or all of the
extant organisms from a potentiality region. Critical
to the definition of the baramin is that it encompasses
all of the members of a potentiality region alive at any
given time. Since it is unlikely that all members of a
potentiality region can actually be known, the baramin
is a purely theoretical construct.
This is an educated man who knows science and knows that it works, and rejects it in favor of magic. Bizarre.
btw I heard of another one whose name I can't remember, a geologist who saw that all of geology contradicted his YEC Christianity, and who ended up giving up science as a result.
OmarKhayyam
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"btw I heard of another one whose name I can't remember, a geologist who saw that all of geology contradicted his YEC Christianity, and who ended up giving up science as a result."
I have long maintained that belief in these myths is actually corrosive of human reasoning skills. That simply believing this crap dulls the ability to logically deduce. Note MoF's request for an experiment to prove common descent. It has not occurred to him that common descent is a deduction that follows from observed fact. I suggest that failure is NO accident.
What makes Wood so interesting is he able to understand what he is doing and what the evidence before him shows. At the same time he is willing and able to chose to believe his myth.
It is rare to see cognitive dissonance so clearly displayed.
I have long maintained that belief in these myths is actually corrosive of human reasoning skills. That simply believing this crap dulls the ability to logically deduce. Note MoF's request for an experiment to prove common descent. It has not occurred to him that common descent is a deduction that follows from observed fact. I suggest that failure is NO accident.
What makes Wood so interesting is he able to understand what he is doing and what the evidence before him shows. At the same time he is willing and able to chose to believe his myth.
It is rare to see cognitive dissonance so clearly displayed.