Evolution vs. Religion
Feb. 14th, 2007 08:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pukkuFWIW, here's my take. Science doesn't care whether or not you believe that God created the Earth 6,000 (or 10,000, or X) years ago; the reason that science is "pro"-evolution is that the Theory of Evolution provides predictive power. That is, we can make predictions (admittedly, at this point they are very broad predictions, and rather weak) about the future and be (at least somewhat) correct. The Theory of Divine Creation doesn't tell us anything about the future, nor does it allow us to make any predictions.
Science isn't about flying robot cars, but rather about looking at the world around us, and based only on what we can see (and reproduce), reducing the complexity to a set of rules (Laws) and paradigms (Theories) that allow us to say what the world will be like in the future.
Some science we're very good at. Some science we aren't. But until the Creationist camp can start making verifiable predictions (which Evolutionists have done), it can't be considered science, and thus has not place in a science class.
This sounds a lot better in my head, while I'm walking to and from work. I may need to work on the presentation a little bit.
Science isn't about flying robot cars, but rather about looking at the world around us, and based only on what we can see (and reproduce), reducing the complexity to a set of rules (Laws) and paradigms (Theories) that allow us to say what the world will be like in the future.
Some science we're very good at. Some science we aren't. But until the Creationist camp can start making verifiable predictions (which Evolutionists have done), it can't be considered science, and thus has not place in a science class.
This sounds a lot better in my head, while I'm walking to and from work. I may need to work on the presentation a little bit.
