Evangelical Theologian Disputes Creationism's Alleged 'Threat' to Human Rights

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Thu Oct 11, 2007 10:06 am Agree: 3   Disagree: 7

As a Christian studying paleontology and evolutionary biology, I can confirm that antievolutionary claims are consistently scientifically untrue. That is why ID and creation science do not belong in schools, whether secular or religious. More importantly, ID and creation science are generally theologically unsound. By making belief in a particular method and timing of creation an essential, if not the essential, criterion for Christianity, they fall into a similar grave heresy to that of the Judaizers opposed by Paul in Galatians. E.g., Jonathan Wells claims that Rev. Moon is the true Messiah and Jesus failed, yet he claims to be a Christian; ICR assisting Islamic antievolutionism as if that rather than Christ was the most important. Another frequent error is denying that God is active in everyday processes. God is smart enough and powerful enough to use evolution as a way to create if He wants-evolution is not an alternative to creation but an alternative method of creation. Exegesis in support of young earth views is also routinely bad.

Examples of false science claims include
"The peppered moths in England: staged and faked"
Moths really changed. Photos were posed because it's very difficult to find two moths of the right kind, one well-camoflauged, perched adjacent to each other in a spot with good lighting for photography. Calling this faking is slander.
Haeckel's embryos: Haekel exaggerated similarities based on his ideas. Correcting his errors leads to better agreement with modern evolutionary ideas.

"DNA of humans more closely matches that of chickens than apes"
Wrong. Possibly one gene might be found this way, but human DNA most closely matches chimps, then gorillas, then orangutans...