CaptainC wrote:
Ask any Creation believer what could change his mind and the answer is "nothing."
Therefore it is not science - it is faith. That is fine, but do not give me the "creation science" crap.
Well...to be fair...that sentiment goes to both sides of the aisle, and I'm sure that you fancy yourself open minded and open to anything but every person has their bias' and what they will and will not allow as an answer.
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Professor Richard Lewontin, a geneticist (and self-proclaimed Marxist), is certainly one of the worlds leaders in evolutionary biology.
He wrote this very revealing comment (the italics were in the original). It illustrates the implicit philosophical bias against Genesis creationregardless of whether or not the facts support it.
[quote]We take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs, in spite of its failure to fulfill many of its extravagant promises of health and life, in spite of the tolerance of the scientific community for unsubstantiated just-so stories, because we have a prior commitment, a commitment to materialism.
It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us to accept a material explanation of the phenomenal world, but, on the contrary, that we are
forced by our a priori adherence to material causes to create an apparatus of investigation and a set of concepts that produce material explanations, no matter how counter-intuitive, no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated.
Moreover, that materialism is an absolute,
for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door.I applaud him for his honesty.