Persecution of the Day

Posted on August 9, 2005 | Filed Under Evangelism

First we were ignorant dopes. So now we are “anti-science extremists.” Check out “Intelligent Design pushed by anti-science extremists.” Fine by me. It seems to be the flavor of the day. If I had been writing this blog a little less than a year ago, I would have been writing about the anti religious Christmas rumblings. It never ends.

We should rejoice in the persecution. In America, we have it pretty easy. If someone wants to call us “extremists,” let them. We do not know real religious persecution in this country. If you have not read Jesus Freaks (I or II) or Extreme Devotion, you should. You will better appreciate how insignificant this is. But I digress.

To a point, I have to conceed agreement. Creation and Intelligent Design are not science. In order to be science, one must be able to apply the scientific method. In order to apply the scientific method, one must be able to observe.

Scientific Method:

  1. Observe some aspect of the universe.
  2. Develop a hypothesis based on the observation.
  3. Use the hypothesis to make predictions.
  4. Test those predictions by experiments or further observations and modify the hypothesis in the light of your results.

As a biology major in college, I was well versed in the scientific method and also in evolutionary theory. Interestingly enough, even in a state school, we had discussions of Creation. It was also our determination that Creation should be taught and discussed in school, but not in science since there can be no application of scientific method. [Granted, I have not read "The Case for a Creator: A Journalist Investigates Scientific Evidence That Points Toward God" as of yet. It is on my ever growing reading list, and maybe I'll change my mind after reading it.]

On the other side of the fence, for those that take evolution as absolute, let me remind you of something. There are, by definition, no absolutes in science. One of my professors said something that has always stuck with me - Science never proves anything. It either disproves or it fails to disprove. The more often it fails to disprove, the stronger our theory becomes, leading to scientific law. But scientific law is itself succeptible to being disproved at some point by scientific method.

To clarify my position:

  1. I welcome the persecution of the ungodly. Bring it on.
  2. Creation SHOULD be taught somewhere in school
  3. But probably not in science

However this debate turns out, it is not in my hands.


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One Response to “Persecution of the Day”

  1. william Wilder on August 11th, 2005 8:46 am

    Evolution is a poor predictor which has failed on all counts( the fossil record- gaps, junk Dna -not junk, vestigal organs -not vestigal Ete.) the problem is it is the only secularist view it cannot be disproven or proven. Its fundamental materialistic assumpitions can not be challanged by someone who acept that assumpition. We make up what science is its all just words people define, we need to decide if the truth is allowed to be considered.

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