On a related topic, many Christians who don't know much science but rely
on what the YECs tell them also don't know whether a given science does or
does not depend on results from another science. Thus we see many of them
make the absurd claim that it is the biological evolutionists who decided
the age of the earth.
Gordon Brown
On Mon, 12 Nov 2007, Steve Martin wrote:
> On 11/11/07, Mountainwoman <hrc54@alltel.net> wrote:
>>
>> Steve,
>>
>> Is this the Polkinghorne quote you are looking for?
>> "Three or four billion years may seem like a pretty long time for the
>> coming to be of life and the formation of its evolved complexity, but
>> incredibly intricate developments have to be fitted into that period.
>> Someone like Richard Dawkins can present persuasive pictures of how the
>> sifting and accumulation of small differences can produce large-scale
>> developments, but, instinctively, a physical scientist would like to see an
>> estimate, however rough, of how many small steps take us from a slightly
>> light-sensitive cell to a fully formed insect eye, and of approximately the
>> number of generations required for the necessary mutations to occur. One is
>> only looking for an order of magnitude answer, comparable in crudity to the
>> back-of-the-envelope calculations of early cosmologists, but our biological
>> friends tell us, without any apparent anxiety, that it just can't be done.
>> So much of evolutionary argument seems to be that 'it's happened and so it
>> must have happened this way".
>>
>> It is from "The Faith of a Physicist: Reflections of a Bottom-Up Thinker
>> (The Gifford Lectures for 1993-4)," Princeton University Press, 1994, p. 16.
>>
>
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> Steve Martin (CSCA)
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