RE: [asa] Nothing_in_Biology_Makes_Sense_Except_in_the_Light_of_Evolution

Actually- after accepting evolution- my whole worldview has changed. Accepting evolution makes me understand things in a better way (designing products, competition for resources, jobs, etc). We put a human layer on the top of it to soften it, but the layer is only a layer, and not the real underpinnings of the machine. All of science is important, but evolution maybe even more important as it helps us to understand how the world runs and operates (from cosmological evolution, chemical evolution, biological evolution, etc.). I'm still researching and understanding evolutionary impacts, and much of it has to do with unlearning some Christian doctrines (such as humans made 'de novo' (as Lemoureux would say) by God).

...Bernie

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Subject: Re: [asa] Nothing_in_Biology_Makes_Sense_Except_in_the_Light_of_Evolution

There's a small point I'd add to Moorad's observation here.

As I've said before, I personally am very at home with evolution, and what's more, I always have been. But in the past few years, what I've started to find odd is the insistence that evolution is the single most important scientific claim in town. I cannot name a single other scientific topic that has so many educators collectively wringing their hands, wondering how they can get more students (or even adults out of school) to accept it. Why is there no comparable concern to promote the understanding of, say.. quantum mechanics, and how it differs from our common sense view of the world? (Indeed, if the authors of Quantum Enigma are right - and I'm not saying they are - the actual hope is that scientific laymen pay no attention to that topic.) What about geological processes, or chemistry, or any other number of topics? Why so much focus on one, and far and away only one, scientific issue? And why does that same focus suggest that understanding evolution is secondary to professed belief in it? And more than that, professed belief with as little room for speculations on guidance, purpose, intelligence and otherwise as possible?

On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 10:42 AM, Douglas Hayworth <becomingcreation@gmail.com<mailto:becomingcreation@gmail.com>> wrote:
FYI and FWIW, I commented briefly about this in one of my blog posts:

http://becomingcreation.org/2009/03/like-it-or-not/

Doug

On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 7:44 AM, Alexanian, Moorad<alexanian@uncw.edu<mailto:alexanian@uncw.edu>> wrote:
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