THE ORIGIN OF RELIGION
  • HOME
  • BEN'S BLOG
  • About The Book
    • BookStore
  • Reviews
  • About The Origin of Religion
  • The origin of spirit
  • FINAL CONCLUSION
  • Contact

BEN'S  BLOG
Click on "Archives" for all blogs since November  2013

The Case Against Evolution

10/24/2014

0 Comments

 
On one of the many forum discussions about Evolution vs Creationism I received the following post:

"Unfortunately, Benjamin there are a number of evolutionary views and they do not all agree with each other. So who is to say that your view is correct and the opposing evolutionary view is wrong. I was immersed in evolution throughout my years in school and it seemed that every year the new hypothesis was thrust upon us and the old was trashed. Not until I left school and started reading more widely did I realize that not everything that some so called scholar tells me is the truth. You have to seek the truth and sometimes that can be very hard. I wish you all the best for your future, keep an open mind."

My response was as folllows:

Let me first rephrase your quote
“Unfortunately, there are a number of evolutionary views and they do not all agree with each other. So who is to say that your view is correct and the opposing evolutionary view is wrong.”
as follows:
“Unfortunately  there are a number of different religious views and they do not all agree with each other. So who is to say that your view is correct and the opposing religious view is wrong”

Furthermore you must mean fortunately! In science the more we discover, the more correct the theory. When there is disagreement one does more research and when a consensus is formed some ideas are discarded and new directions explored. To quote you “You have to seek the truth and sometimes that can be very hard“. This way the theory becomes closer to the truth all the time. the geocentric model of the solar system was replaced by the heliocentric system in such manner. Some fought that idea at the time but evidence piled up so most astronomers changed their mind in spite of the objection by the church. (Some people even still think the earth is flat, “google”  the Flat Earth Society, after all, they say, if you stand out in the field you can "observe" it is flat and that's the truth!). Just because an idea doesn't pan out right away, you don't disregard it, you do more research, that's why archeologists don't stop exploring to come closer to the truth all the time. The problem with religion is that it is regarded to be the ultimate "truth" so there is no need to explore any further. As a matter of fact that has happened in the past when Arab mathematics in the 9th and 10th century (we still use Arab symbols for our numbers) stopped developing because the religious leaders called it the work of the devil. Our western advances in science came nearly to a halt in the dark ages because of religious resistance. Now who needs to keep an open mind?

0 Comments

Your comment will be posted after it is approved.


Leave a Reply.

    Ben Vande       
    Weerdhof
    Andrews


    Retired Teacher
    Author
    Videographer






    Archives of
    previous Blogs

    February 2023
    January 2023
    November 2022
    September 2022
    August 2022
    June 2022
    May 2022
    March 2022
    January 2022
    October 2021
    August 2021
    June 2021
    May 2021
    February 2021
    December 2020
    October 2020
    August 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014
    October 2014
    September 2014
    August 2014
    July 2014
    June 2014
    May 2014
    April 2014
    March 2014
    February 2014
    January 2014
    December 2013
    November 2013

    Categories

    All

    RSS Feed

    Click RSS feed for previous blogs

Ben's Blog

About Origin OF Religion

About THe Book

BooKStore

Contact

  • HOME
  • BEN'S BLOG
  • About The Book
    • BookStore
  • Reviews
  • About The Origin of Religion
  • The origin of spirit
  • FINAL CONCLUSION
  • Contact