The reason I asked if anyone thought the lung thing and the feather thing
were problems, is that it seems sometimes that people say that there are
problems with creation and don't seem to want to admit that there are
problems with evolution as well. I think there are problems with both
theorys, I've been more of a creation guy because I found problems with the
evolution they were feeding me at school and uni, but I know that there are
problems with the creations theorys as well.
I think the question is how serious are the problems, thats what I need to
work out. I know that it would be possible for God just to make everything
happen, is it deffinately possible for evolution to happen? I know heaps of
people will try to stone me for that, but I have to ask, if we want
answers, we have to be willing to ask the right questions.
To me at the moment it seems logically impossible for a lung to get a hole
in it and have it still work, unless there was a perfectly designed
structure already in place to use that extra hole. So my question now is,
is it possible for any major organ or structure to evolve slowly over time?
I know you say that it is, and that there are fossils that prove it, but do
they prove it? Or do they show an animal that just has a different
structure? Is a platypus a half way point between a duck and a beaver?
Can science show anything by itself? Or does there need to be an
understanding from elsewhere to make sence of it? Are there assumptions
that we all make that effect our interpretation of science? If so are they
right or wrong?
If we can get an idea of whether or not evolution is accually possible as
process of large scale change, then I think the science will be meaningful.
Untill then, I'm not sure we can show anything. This means passing from
science to philosophy, something I'm sure everyone will want to disregard.
But I recomend reading C.S. Lewis, and the like, because there are problems
here that go beyond physical science.
Donald
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Donald Howes
Acting Research Systems Co-ordinator
Research Services
University of New England
Australia
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