> The general impression I came away with was that each member of the
>"creationist" side has carved out a receptive niche within various
>Christian communities and they are unwilling to sincerely engage the
>counter evidence to their positions.
The thing that saddened me was that the Christians offered NO explanation
for why the facts are as they are. They simply said that evolution couldn't
be true. If we are going to beat the materialist side, we simply HAVE to
offer a framework into which the facts of science can be placed. To offer
no reason why the whale sequence is as it is, other than to say, as Johnson
did, that I can quote a Science Magazine article against your evidence is a
very weak position. Every issue in science has at least one critic
including the inverse square law of gravitation. Why should the whale
series be different?
Christians need to develop a positive apologetic which explains what we
find, not simply disagree with the other explanation.
glenn
Adam, Apes, and Anthropology: Finding the Soul of Fossil Man
and
Foundation, Fall and Flood
http://www.isource.net/~grmorton/dmd.htm