thankyou LH for detailing the facts of myth about columbus.
of course everyone knows[!] that most poeple thought the earth was flat [not] just like everyone knows darwinism is true [not again].
it is my opinion ,though i cannot prove it,that the acceptance of evolutionism goes with the rejection of the biblical record.this in turn leads to dismissal of the biblical God.you speak very resonably but your idea of God,though affirming some sort of deity is somewhat vague.
bill-if i were more able i am sure i could produce a list of quotes where the main thrust of your argument is appeal to authority and numbers of scientists who are evolutionists.
if science had abided under that rule of thumb it would not have advanced.
if you think,as you suggest that science did not flourish under a biblical worldview,i ask you to evidence that claim.
remember you were wrong about columbus .you could be wrong about evolution.
fact is,-i own up to the presupposition that the bible record is true,but evolutionists rarely own up to their worldview being the glasses through which they interprete the data.
howbeit,i have quoted some that have admitted that they accept it,not because the evidence confirms it ,but to avoid a "divine foot in the door"