Wilso wrote:Tyically only responding to those questions which you can only give a theological answer to. It's too bad there isn't a tree of knowledge. You need to eat a few dozen.
Zappa's pretension to intellectualism while mischaracterizing and misquoting the Bible is pathetic. But it is accepted at face value by the same star-struck generation that believes Ted Danson has any insight as to the viability of ocean life. The cult of Celebrity is a hypnotic seducer of modern man, who is hopelessly under it's spell.
Let us then turn to the learned. What does SJ Gould have to say? Gould says that the Genesis story fails as science for three reasons:
1) It can't have happened. Because miracles don't happen. Because I say so.
2) Creationists claim all fossils are the result of the Flood. (They don't claim this.)
3) Creationists take the arguments of evolutionists out of context and distort them. (Don't you dare look at #2 while he tells you this!! )
So Gould takes an assumption of anti-supernaturalism, plus two faults he professes to find in his opponents to make his case.
Whatever may or may not be the shortcomings of creationists or evolutionists doesn't change what did or did not actually happen when the world began.
The fact that Gould does not even attempt to cite one shred of actual scientific evidence here is very telling. He simply launches into an attack on his opponents, not the substance of their arguments.
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The fact that the evolutionary "storyboard" has been populated with "ape-man" hoaxes time and again is also very telling. These picture book fairy tales serve to draw attention away from the huge problems evolutionists have postulating how life could spontaneously generate from non-living chemicals.
That, after all is THE problemn for evolution, is it not? One can try to categorize animals all day long and remark how they resemble each other , so one MUST have given rise to the other, etc.............
But how did a living entity make itself?
Living organisms, even the smallest and lowliest, are incredibly complex. To postulate that all of the incredibly complex chemicals (some of which can only be produced in the presence of others,etc) and constituent parts of even a one celled creature just jumped together at the same time and were immediately successful in living (for failure to be instantly successful would spell instant death and disintegration of these chemical wannabes by the chemical soup that they supposedly reside in, leaving Mother Evolution's next effort to start from scratch again) is a flight of fancy, but not much else.
