Ain\'t nature wonderful (Introduction)

by dhw, Wednesday, September 15, 2010, 12:53 (5183 days ago) @ Balance_Maintained

BALANCE_MAINTAINED: I would consider myself a creationist, agnostic in respect to the nature of the UI that created it, but a creationist none-the-less.-Oh dear, then we're back to the problem of definitions. By "Creationist" I understand someone who believes literally in the story recounted by Genesis, with the God of the OT creating each species separately. I don't think even David, who is a firm believer in a UI, would embrace that interpretation of life's history.-There are undoubtedly huge gaps in the theory, but what you call the "worst of all" does not even figure in Darwin's theory, and is a constant source of misunderstanding eagerly fostered by Dawkins and his ilk. You rightly complain about the presentation of "evolution as the ONLY method for the origins of life". The theory of evolution tells us nothing about the origins of life, and was never meant to do so. Evolution can only begin when life already exists, and for all his later speculations, Darwin himself remained an agnostic and was adamant that his theory was in no way incompatible with belief in God. Perhaps a little naively he even wrote in The Origin itself: "I see no good reason why the views given in this book should shock the religious feelings of any one."