15 Answers to Creationists Nonsense.
May 14, 2007
It is probably just a coincidence but I have stumbled on quite a few blogs recently all attacking basic evolution theory. Take this one for instance . Now, I don’t know a great deal about the author other than he is clearly a very clever and intelligent person. He wrote (or at least adapted) a phpbb script which prevents spam bots from signing up to your boards. This alone was worth its weight in gold to me and has done what many other scripts failed to do. So how can such a clever, intelligent person believe what he believes what he believes. He constantly quotes scripture and takes it deadly seriously. He mixes New Testament with old and clearly holds each to be as important as the other. He even promotes loving homosexuals (err in a purely Christian way!) Yet he clearly and firmly believed in the literal truth of the Noah myths and other mythological stories from the Old Testament. Yet this clever individual is quite happy to promote stuff that he clearly knows is erroneous or correct. In a post on An Evolution Conversation with My Father he promoted the usual myth of ‘throw the bible / Shakespeare up in the air and marvel that it lands in a manner that makes sense’. This is a tactic that Jehovah witnesses have tried to push on me several times on my door step. They know it is disingenuous and I am sure that every preacher who uses this argument knows that it is dishonest. The problem and the solution can be seen here
If you have not read this article then it is well worth a look. 15 Answers to Creationists Nonsense.
One of the most kind posts I’ve ever read about myself on the Internet, and it was from someone completely disagreeing with me. Thank you. (And I’m glad the phpBB MOD was so valuable to you!)
However, I never said anything about throwing the Bible up in the air and seeing how it landed. I realize that natural selection will allow for digits which are correct (or, in the correct location and case [upper or lower]) to remain through to further iterations.
And if one randomly compiles letters and punctuation over and over, keeping the correct ones while changing everything else with each iteration or generation, the Bible would be arrived at quite quickly.
However, such an arrival would be taking place in an optimal environment, perfectly suited to arriving at the Bible. It seems highly unlikely that every positive trait exhibited on the road to humanity would have been kept. So for a fair Bible analogy to be used, even some of the correctly placed letters would have to change every now and again, increasing both the complexity of the task and the time taken to arrive at the completed product.
Also, your link at the end of your post — “15 Answers to Creationists Nonsense” — which I did read when you linked to it on my blog — is broken. You seem to have doubled up on your
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