near to death episodes (Endings)

by David Turell , Saturday, March 01, 2008, 01:49 (6110 days ago) @ John Clinch

Am I a Darwinist? I must answer, sort of. I believe we evolved from some originating one-celled organism, but I also believe that evolution is coded into DNA, and was driven in the 'junk' DNA segments by miRNA and other RNA types which have been shown to control genes and drive changes. In other words I think evolution was a controlled process within certain parameters, and somewhat free within those limits. I also believe that scientific evidence has to be taken into account as it appears. Note that Antony Flew was willing to follow the evidence wherever it led him, and now we have his book "There Is A God". I have done the same thing for the past 35 years and have come to believe there is some sort of imbedded intelligence within the universe. What I meant by just-so stories is the anti-intellectual attempt to explain away puzzling science findings by inventing possible scenarios and then concluding that those scenarios negate unacceptable conclusions to that person's preconceived point of view.