re: Your Opinion???

Rick (rickm@i1.net)
Wed, 4 Sep 1996 02:59:12 -0700


> Actually, I am writing only to get some opinions from the group
> regarding the following statement originally posted to the MereLewis
> group as part of a discussion on "life on Mars" (meteorite with supposed
> fossilized bacteria). If you respond, please post (or at lest copy) to
> me directly, as I no longer subscribe to this group (can't do both
> MereLewis and evolution -- too much volume) although I occasionally
> check the archives and I do miss you guys.
>
> > The theory of evolution as the explanation for speciation is a thoroughly
> > proved one. You need only go the classic example of the moth Biston
> > bistularia (sp?) to see it in action.

Nothing is "thoroughly" proven. You can just gather more and more evidence for
it. But as far as theories go, evolution is pretty good.

> >
> > This however, neither proves nor disproves the divine origin of life, the
> > universe & everything.

Evolution doesn't have anything to do with the origin of life. It's has to do
with how life evolved after it got here.

Whether you take Genesis to be a true myth or a
> > verbatim historical account doesn't matter. You either start with the
> > assumption that God exists - or not. Lewis has shown that the former
> > (once assumed) is more probable and seems to account better for life-as-we
> > know-it, but (as he wrote in his essay on the persistence in belief
> > [faith]) honorable men can (and have) taken either side.

Actually there is no evidence for a God or instantaneous creation. There is
evidence for evolution. Creation "science" is not real science. It's sole
purpose is to discredit a real science, in the desperate attempt to give some
legitimacy to an old book some people want to have faith in. A book written by
long dead barbaric Jews.

Rick M.