Posted by
Michael Scotto on Saturday, April 19, 2008 8:08:50 PM
Ed Bases His Faith in Evolution on Very Slippery Ground
It appears as though
Ed Morrisey entered into the theater to review Ben Stein's "Expelled" with his mind made up. He has already concluded that evolution is a "proven fact" and that examples abound. I hate to use the following of Ed, but on this issue he's being quite silly. Ed argues that bacteria surviving antibiotics "proves" evolution. That's not just slippery ground, it's shear idiocy. Sorry, Ed, but starting with 100 of anything and showing one survivor doesn't explain the existence of the 100 you started with. Micro-evolution is not Macro-evolution.
Ed: "Antibiotics that kill 99% of bacteria eventually promote the survival
and the expansion of the 1% that resist them, created superbacteria
that require another set of antibiotics to cure, and so on."
For one to survive it has to already exist. All he has shown is adaptation of the kind, not a new kind. His example doesn't even come close to the question of how new species come into being or how one species become another. If he had that "evidence" there would be no argument. All he has shown is that an already existing organism managed to survive. That is not "evolution."
Ed Thinks God Favors "the Fittest"
I understand why atheists must have evolution. Without it they are left with nothing. What I cannot understand is the
untenable position of the "Theistic Evolutionists." That is, unless their god thinks that the strong destroying the weak is the central theme of the ages.
How theistic evolutionists handle the deity of Christ and all the implications of His death, burial, lack of decay and resurrection in an their system (wherein death is not only God's plan, it is good and necessary). The central theme of scripture (from Genesis on) is "death is not good." The work of Christ was the conquering of the grave. The hope of Job was resurrection. Apparently these little theological core beliefs are of no interest to "scientists" like Ed Morrisey.
Additional thoughts
HERE.