dmcg-some interesting thoughts and would not wish to disagree though i hope you will permit a few obsevations/questions.


Certainly. Everything I say is open to challenge. That's how it works! *smile*

...since a creationist does not interpret the data the same as darwinists.yet they claim a cast iron case for evolutionism just as we trust the bible as our authority

People often phrase things carelessly, including scientists. No scientist should ever claim they have a cast-iron case for something, because the essence of being a good scientist means accepting that in the light of evidence any theory can be overturned. But that is not evidence from authority, since we are not relying on the fact that the President of the Royal Society and All His Friends are making the declaration that something is so, but on evidence that you as an individual can check. Even when its data from the Large Hadron Collider and you can't actually repeat the expeiment yourself, you can see the data, perform your own analyses to check whether it looks like the data has been fiddled, read all the papers and see if they contain errors in logic, and so on.

That is a world away from 'trusting the bible for your authority'.