Published July 19, 2008 11:36 pm - Jon Kaus
North Mankato
Your View: Evolutionists react emotionally to creationists
A few months ago, Victor Tanner in response to a Your View I wrote, said natural selection operates by nature, thus no intelligence needed. I agree, which means natural selection has to be random.
Nature cannot be predicted, it does not have a mind, and there is no force guiding it. How is this nonrandom?
Tanner then says, “…fossils of transitional forms, anatomical atavisms, and more recently DNA evidence,” are evidences for macroevolution.
These are not evidences for macroevolution. Listing terms like “transitional fossils” does not mean they exist. Please, give a specific example.
Tanner goes on to say, “Every big jump is only the end product of a series of small jumps..?” Seeing small changes in the present and then imagining over millions of years they can result in big jumps isn’t science, it is science fiction. Sure one can breed a variety of dogs (Small jumps), but the offspring is always a dog. Never will a dog produce an alligator, a bird, or a giraffe. This is science, this is what we see and this is what the Bible predicted. Every animal would be able to produce after their kind (Genesis 1:24-25). Never in science have we seen any different. If you want to believe a monkey made mankind, that is fine, but now you have left science and entered fairy tale land.
Tanner said evolutionists aren’t running on emotions. Obviously he hasn’t talked to evolutionists about creation and the Bible because their responses are anything but calm. Watch Ben Stein’s documentary and see how calm these evolutionists are. You think they are not running on emotions, you are kidding yourself.