"Christianity is working alongside researchers but Darwinism is being debunked more and more as the decades go by." Mark June
That statement is false on both fronts. Christianity is working with no researchers.
It's true to say that some Christians are financially supporting some "scientists" who purport to do legitimate research. Do you recall when tobacco companies used the same strategy to argue cigarets are safe?
Darwinism is being debunked? That's completely false. Darwinism is being confirmed every day by DNA and medical research. Darwinism has withstood 150 years of every sort of science- and faith-based attack that could be imagined in that time.
Darwinism is confirmed by numerous branches of science: DNA, morphology, carbon-dating, radioactive dating, biology--now there's a science that's founded entirely on Darwin's theory!
You must be intelligent enough to tell the difference between science and pseudoscience. Give me an honest answer to one question, please:
Let's say you need heart surgery, and you have two surgeons to pick from. In every respect their qualifications and experience appear to be equal. There's only one difference: One surgeon believes in Darwinist evolution, and the other does not.
Which heart surgeon would you choose?
Jim
P.S. - Taking bets on whether he'll give me a straight answer.
I'll give you my opinion which would equate to my answer here in a sec and I hope you can see via an email formatting that my intentions aren't to discredit Darwin. I never knew the guy. But James, you can't talk me out of my graduate level work alongside Dr. Eugene Studier (bat guy), Dr. Pace (invertebrates) and many others. Some of the work was amazing and some had social implications as the basis. Honest. And what place does social engineering have in a biology lab? That was my question. I almost didn't graduate because of my "rogue" attitude. But, it was my trapping background. I knew the outdoors. These bookworms didn't and yet they made claims as if they did. Now that's a simplification, but it soured me early on. I mean our department in Ann Arbor, with a large contingency of Asian scholars were in the thick and thin of climatology with global cooling as the mantra. You remember right? I wasn't in those departments but I drank brews with some who were and they were too often starting with the supposition and concluding based on that? Backwards! But they were confident no one would call them out because they worked in a tight group who protected their own. Anyone see any of that going on anywhere else where money, prestige and name, and power, and super clubs are the norm?
But there are also MANY good researchers. Many! I knew some good ones. Really good ones. How often are they told to go along or go away = money talks with research grants and it you want to research you need money, right? I did research with others for 5 years so I know the pressure of $$$$.
I feel I'm slipping into a legalize coma and you've got me in a canoe and you have the paddle and ask me, "Where would you like to go?" James, but that's OK. I like AK.
A. You're inaccurate about how you're reading my Man posts. You also are starting with a supposition. I would never take the time to write all this if I was going to be the Christian voice in the apologetic. I'd just say, "I believe" and I do. But I've given much in data and you don't read it for face value. I'd dismiss you from the jury for prejudice.
As an example, I just have you a clip of researchers and links to those who are working on research. I didn't say they work in the same office.
I can safely bet you don't read the spirit of my writings. Did you look at the links? Read my submissions? Because you claim Christianity is working with no researchers. When Dr. G presents at an academy of Science symposia, I call that "working with." Many researchers don't like each other so they don't have to be buds. Much competition for fame and fortune in any human endeavor. That's not unique.
Your last question to me is easy. I spent 29 years in the major Pharma industry alongside medical professionals and personnel of all stripes.
I'd pick the doc NOT WITH THE BIGGEST NAME but with the highest survival rates and lowest complication rates.
I wouldn't look at his or her Darwinism or faith educations.
But I would ask to pray with him or her, before they cut me stem to stearn.
That's another honest answer for my legal friend.
Blessings,
Mark