Logic doesnt play a significant role, most theories are limiting cases of better theories and so on.faith and logic are mutually exclusive. To scientists, the finding means nothing because they know the truth. To religious people, the finding means nothing because they know the truth.
btw, could that article be wriiten any worse?
Logic doesnt play a significant role, most theories are limiting cases of better theories and so on.
Why is this turning into another religion thing again anyway
Try throwing the genetic diversity argument at a creationist, and watch them fumble away at some answer that doesn't explain a damn thing.
'If God destroyed all life on earth save those on the ark, how did we get races? Did Noah have black, latino, and chinese babies?'
'How did noah save buffaloe if they only lived in North America. In fact, how did animals get to the America's after the flood?'
'So, if Adam and Eve were the first man and woman, does that mean we are all the products of incest? Wait, where in the bible did it mention eve had a daughter?'
Who ever said that religion and evolution are mutually exclusive. Get the fuck over it. A couple crazies, very loud ones are constantly crying about evolution, the vast majority either dont care, or have reconciled it. Creationist crying is a largely American phenomenon. Anglican, Catholic, Orthodox and Judaism all teach hard science the same way. A Catholic priest came up with the big bang theory, Mendel (the guy who invented genetics) was ALSO a Catholic priest.Because its about evolution...
And logic tells me that since something like 80-90% of my DNA is useless for defining a human and 60% of that junk is the same as a starfish, that we just might be related. Seems logical enough to me...
"On the Origin of Species" focused more on natural selection than true evolution. Equating 'Darwinism' to the theory of evolution is erroneous.
Most Christians I know don't take every story in the Bible at face value, least of all the whole "Ark" bit.
Who ever said that religion and evolution are mutually exclusive. Get the fuck over it. A couple crazies, very loud ones are constantly crying about evolution, the vast majority either dont care, or have reconciled it. Creationist crying is a largely American phenomenon. Anglican, Catholic, Orthodox and Judaism all teach hard science the same way. A Catholic priest came up with the big bang theory, Mendel (the guy who invented genetics) was ALSO a Catholic priest.
(http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10180b.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mendel)
Ignorance as a virtue is distinctive of American evangelist theology, and some outlier Catholic Diocese (Africa, South America). It's not the norm. Actually from the catholic encyclopedia --> "the idea that the universe came into existence as a result of a cataclysmic explosion of highly compressed matter is not inconsistent with the Catholic teaching that God created the universe."
As to logic:
Evolution and most of biology is case examples, you cant prove it so you use the best guess and build on it. Otherwise it wouldnt be radically changed every 40 or so years. Things that DNA proved, were held as theories before they were proved, they couldve been wrong. It's best guess science, logic implies immutable truth. As for Darwinism:
"Darwinism is not a testable scientific theory, but a metaphysical research program." -Karl Popper
The current theory of evolution started with Darwin, but he didnt come up with any universal truths. Mendel probably deserves more credit. Kinda annoying how journalists put everything in a blender and manage to come up with completely worthless ideas about how things are put together.
Wut? Correct me if I'm wrong, but evolution is natural selection.