Thaddeus said:
>>I dunno, after too many years of having evolution shoved down my throat as a biology major, there are just too many things that one has to take on faith to believe in the theory of evolution.<<
Sorry, no, there is nothing that is required to take on faith to accept the reality that life evolves.
>> I find that believing in divine creation takes a lot less faith and has a lot less holes.<<
You make the same mistake Ed does---whether or not a God is behind it, life evolved.
>> Try reading "The Black Box" by Micheal Behe. It is a very biochemical approach to why evolution is impossible. I could explain the book, but it is better to read it if you understand biochemistry and physiology pretty well. Or, try reading any of Hugh Ross's books for some lighter reading on the topic.<<
Sorry, read both those authors and their work is full of logical and scientific errors. They aren't taken seriously by any of the best minds in their fields and it is patently obvious from hearing them lecture and reading their other writings that they both went into this with the mindset of accepting any evidence that would seem to call doubt to current evolutionary theory and rejecting that which supports it.
>> This is not the forum for the subject, but I have studied a whole lot of evolutional theory, and the holes in it are too numerous to list and I am not going to be lured into an out of line discussion on it because I have BTDT and it profits nothing.<<
So basically you're saying you're just going to come make the statement that evolutionary theory is full of holes and then not support it? Sorry, I have studied it quite a bit myself and I disagree. Guess I don't have to say why though, by your rules.
>>Study it for yourself and make your own decisions, but just be sure to read both side of the issue (I have listed some good reading above). It takes faith that the holes in evolution will be patched up in the future, just like the first evolutionists had faith that their little theory would be proven
correct when it was just beginning. There are still many huge holes in evolutionary theory, they just are smaller than they were 100 years ago, and some of them have ridiculous explanations. Believing in the scientific approach to evolutionary creation takes a lot of faith in science that they will someday really find out that they are right. I don't have enough faith to overlook those holes in the meantime.<<
Creationists like to repeat that lie, but it is just that: a lie. Evolutionary biology requires no faith---it has been proven over and over. All modern medicine is based on it and it is observed in action every single day. The "holes" you speak of are simply gaps in some species development, but there is an almost unbroken evolutionary chain that is clearly visible from fossils in many many species---it makes precious little sense to say "Oh, these species evolved, but since we don't have evidence that THIS species evolved, it must be different from all the others." I think you are being a bit disingenuous in your argument.
>> The nice thing is, when we die, we will all know the truth, whatever that may be.<<
Well, in fact that isn't so. If I am right, when you die, you won't know anything at all, ever again, since you will cease to exist. But that has exactly NOTHING to do with evolution. Evolution is a fact, whether there is a God or a heaven or an afterlife of any kind and the two things are NOT connected.
>>Call me a wimp, but I would rather embrace a divine creator and be wrong, than to snub my nose at him and find out I was mistaken<<
You also ignore the possibility you are embracing the wrong version of God, and you also are TOTALLY mistaken to equate evolutionary science with atheism or nonbelief. Most professing Christians accept the fact of evolution.