the principle of Uniformitarianism. Uniformitarianism states that everything on the earth has remained the same as it is now. In other words, according to Uniformitarianism, there have been no large-scale natural disasters on the earth.
Justin Brown – If the Bible is mistaken in telling us where we came from, how can we trust it to tell us where we’re going? If it is mistaken quite right!
You cannot be both sane and well educated and disbelieve in evolution. The evidence is so strong that any sane, educated person has got to believe in evolution. — Richard Dawkins.
This is a sweeping statement! As we shall see there is no evidence to substantiate this claim. Also he is really talking about faith or “disbelieving” which doesn’t necessarily have anything to do with education.
It is absolutely safe to say that, if you meet somebody who claims not to believe in evolution, that person is ignorant, stupid or insane (or wicked, but I’d rather not consider that). Richard Dawkins.
Is this statement rational? Is it scientific? People who talk like this in essence are saying “agree with me, mine is the only intelligent viewpoint.” Make no mistake the tone and content of this shows passion. Yet it is an amazingly overconfident assertion. The word “believe” in the context of evolution is right because it is all about belief not facts.
Let’s look at the theory rationally with as much honesty and as little bias as we can muster. Evolution claims to be a scientific theory. Shall we apply the Scientific Method to it?
The steps of the scientific method are to:
1. Observe.
2. Construct a hypothesis that is consistent with the
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