Natural Selection: A Machine for Making Almost Impossible Things

Taken from a lecture by professor Steve Jones called "Why creationism is wrong and evolution is right".
http://royalsociety.org/event.asp?id=4140

Posted under: My Youtube Videos, Evolution, Science
Posted on: Thursday, September 03, 2009 4:08 AM
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  1. Posted by: Mith on 9/8/2009 1:47 AM
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    A good vid, but I fear that this won't get the message across. People don't refuse evolution because they don't understand it, but rather because they believe it goes against God.

    And I fear that this is a major issue that most scientists such as this one, don't understand when talking about this sort of thing. From what I can garner, they try to explain it because that's how they would come to understand it. Their thought is that people refuse it based on the idea that it is wrong, which is understandable as that is the reason given, but it isn't the source of the problem.

    It's that they see it as a threat. For a scientist, he needs to explain the difference between creationisim (philosophy), intelligent design (philosophy), and evolution (science). That they are in truth, two different subjects. He also needs to explain how science and scientific theory work.

    Science is about taking what we have around us and basing laws based on materialistic laws. Religion is belief, it is taken from a spiritual perspective that surpasses materialistic belief. Because it is the idea that there is more than what we see, touch, hear, smell, or taste.

    In that same vein, creationism is a religious movement focused on becoming materialistic, as it attempts to denounce something that is supposed to be only materialistic by design.

    Intelligent design is alsoa religious method of thought, but instead of going AGAINST science, it takes both as real, making reasonable compromise by taking what is old and faulty, and replacing it with what is true.

    Science isn't a threat to religion, nor is religion a threat to science. They are different modes of thought that are sometimes overlapping, but not part of each other. Science cannot accept that a God exists because God is not a material creature. He is a spiritual one and is therefore beyond what science can currently reach.

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