I purposely stay out of the evolution/creation debate, because I’m not willing to put the time in to have a well-informed, defensible opinion and because many people involved seem to have their own facts, not just their own opinions. I don’t want to take the time to sort through not just asserted facts, but personalities history, and motives. Ben Stein, who I always had a good deal of respect for, seems to have used some Michael Moore-style film tricks in Expelled. While it doesn’t automatically disqualify everything he says, it’s disappointing and it makes me view him with a far more skeptical eye. Then there are the shenanigans at the Discovery Institute… rather than parse every phrase in arguments like this, I have stayed out.
I believe that science declares the glory of God. In this debate, there’s been plenty of dishonesty on both sides, from outright faked evidence to purposely dowdifying quotes to change their meaning. Frankly, I’m more distressed by the dishonesty on the creation side because I have higher standards for Christians than non-Christians. So I’m extremely happy to report that a friend of ours has started a new site to engage in the debate. Mark is someone I know personally and trust. He is humble, honorable, and above all loves the Lord. I know that the information I read on his new site, DetectingTruth.com will be honest and as accurate as humanly possible. He’s got an IT/engineering background and a talent for putting the cookies on the lower shelf so people like me, who really are new to the debate, can grasp it easily. This post on Evolution and the Second Law of Thermodynamics is a good example.
Last May, I wrote -
One thing I do believe – where there seems to be a conflict between God and science, it’s because we have a faulty understanding of one or the other.
So the next time I want to dip my toe into the creationism/evolution pool and try to gain some understanding of all this, I have a really trustworthy resource at my disposal.
Bookmark Detecting Truth or add it to your RSS reader.
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Back to the drawing board.
I am returning to the way I used to write. I cannot write what everyone wants me to write. I’m not enjoying it. I must return to searching the news for my own articles such as Africa, Asia, ME, South America, etc…
PS. Hi there, Lady. I do not understand why my trackbacks are not going through, but yours is not the only site where they don’t appear. How have you been? Long time, eh?
A quick skim through the site, for example the post on the 2nd law of thermodynamics, suggests to me that the site is repeating the same sorts of mistakes that such sites make so often. On your recommendation I won’t question the honesty of the author at all, or even his good intentions. Unfortunately I’m not sure his site will do much more than confirm people’s mistaken beliefs about evolution.