Originally posted by: rahvin
Originally posted by: NeenerNeener
You should read Darwin's Black Box by Michael Behe. I wanted to get a pro and a con book on the subject, and this dude's a biochemist and his angle has nothing to do with espousing creationism (although creationists use his arguments anyway). He raises some good questions.
Lets boil Behe's whole book down to one sentence. Life can't evolve because it's too complex and can't work without it's parts. His entire book is based on the premise that life has a "goal". or an objective, as the life evolves and this is contrary to reality. There is no causality, there is no goal.
Evolution is a fact. It's an observed, documented and confirmed fact of this world. The "theory of evolution" is the method by which that observed, documented and confirmed process works. When creationists talk about evolution what they do is disregard the fact and accept the theory (natural selection). The irony and outright idiocy of that position is outstanding.
And lets be clear on something else, science isn't faith. Science is based on reason, evidence and experimentation. Creationists have been trying for years to say that science is somehow equivalent to religion by equating science to faith. They have and continue to seek the credibility that science has but they will never achieve it because their beliefs are not based on reason, evidence and experimentation. Until god is willing to show up and participate in an experiement to prove his existence then religion is relegated to philosophy were it shall stay. If your religion contradicts the observed universe than it is your perogative to ignore those observations and pretend they don't exist but don't try to convince me that the science is wrong because you think your book says it is.