Friday, July 23, 2010

50 years old today: still fighting for truth, justice and the American way

It's been one month since I last posted to this blog. Today (July 23, 2010) is my fiftieth birthday. I celebrated by posting a response about the facts of evolution to a creationist blog (that I will not name here) whose owner continually flaunts his ignorance while pretending to be wise.

Contrary to what that creationist claims, it isn’t blind faith that sees a tree of life. It is what the data from many different measurements all show. Nested hierarchies of data are what are expected and predicted by evolutionary theory, and that the nested hierarchies of different types of measurements produce the same tree of life is yet another proof.

He also claims that the fossil record only shows separate kinds without macroevolution taking place; again he is wrong. The fossil record shows transitions from fish to land animals, from dinosaurs to birds, from land animals to whales, and from apes to humans with clear transitional forms found in the fossil record where genetic and other evidence predicts they should be found.

IF his arguments were based on facts, then I could respect them more. His sources are wrong and so naturally his conclusions are wrong. According to some polls nearly half of adult Americans don't accept the fact evolution happens. This is just as ridiculous and just as wrong as if half of adult Americans insisted the earth is flat in spite of all evidence to the contrary.

Telling lies in the name of God is a surefire way to turn people away from Christ, especially when it is something that is as easily checked as the evidence for evolution. Certain denominations of Christianity and other religions still insist that evolution must be false. I have an open mind to truth, whether or not it agrees with what I want to believe. I hate lies, which is why so many creationists piss me off. To their credit, many of them mean well. It's just that they are basing their opinions on lies they have been told by sources they trust.