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Thread #157801   Message #3728549
Posted By: GUEST,Dave
06-Aug-15 - 07:47 AM
Thread Name: BS: One for the astrophysicist
Subject: RE: BS: One for the astrophysicist
Pete,

Not going to get dragged into this, I have had my arguments with creationists in the past and I have them in the family, and I know well that you can refute every single argument but it will never satisfy them. The vast, vast majority of scientists think it is rubbish. The vast, vast majority of Christians think it is rubbish, I don't know so much about other religions (particularly Islam) but probably they do too. Every mainstream church thinks it is rubbish. Darwin's (and Wallace's) ideas, like Newton's, were ground breaking but no scientific hypothesis is ever the last word, and other ideas have been put forward (for instance by Stephen Jay Gould and Niles Eldredge). But to say that because of these ideas you question the whole premise of evolution is as stupid as saying that because Einstein's ideas modify Newtonian gravity you don't have to worry about jumping off a cliff.