Aug 17 2007
Prepare to believe
I’ve found the nervous Creationists odd, speaking of evolution as the “Darwinist Belief System”. As a young boy I was fortunate to grow up in central Pennsylvania near a gold mind of Carboniferous period fossils. It never crossed my mind that thinking these life imprints were an amazing 300 million years old were beliefs. My carbon black radio worked well enough so I assumed the dates were correct. What’s even more amazing is discovering 20 years later that 120 Million US citizens believe the earth is less than 10 thousand years old.
My Catholic grade school science teacher, Mr. Dumm (cursed from birth), took us on fossil hunts and taught us the heresy of evolution. Thank god we didn’t have to read that damn bible or my head would have exploded with the contradictions. In mass what I heard from the bible was few and far between; for good reason it seems. I was given some choice by 7th grade and was able to go to public school. That was when I was forced to go to Sunday school, which lacked all the only things I liked about church: incense, music and wine. My frontal lobe did not accord with the non-sense of the bible translator, as anyone who rejects double speak knows.
My families sect doesn’t believe the sun revolves around us, but they do believe we evolved over millions of years guided by the hand of god. There are around 100 million Americans who fit this dualistic form of Christian compatible science. I’m sure the most common answer is that man wrote the bible and the Catholics loaded the canon, therefore it’s a “kind of” Gospel, an almost unquestionable truth. I can’t imagine why they believe the inspired dictator of god had a problem writing 15 billion instead of 6 thousand. I’m sure that number existed then as it does now. That is the signal of gospel, a metaphysical truth. There’s no questioning it and a person who would say, you have to believe in 15 billion is a sign of mental illness.
We are never going to find every fossil from every generation of every animal and plant. That’s the proof Creationists demand for what they claim is a holy theory. The fact that mutations occur and selective pressures exist in the wild which promotes adaptation, a metaphysical proof supported by facts, are not enough. I have respect for thinkers of the past who had to create imaginative hypothesis and put them to the pressure of examination and have the false ones drop like flies. That’s what makes a belief, it hasn’t been put the pressure of test and/or critical reasoning.
The argument presented against the Creationist belief is that we don’t have to prove the negative. It’s not necessary to prove the negative because their positive crumbles under logic. God is disproven by it’s most simple definition, it can do anything. Not being able to do something is something. I wonder what their explanation for gods mass genocide during their “great flood” was and why he didn’t kill off the species we caused to go extent. I’m sure they’ll be creative for they came up with this gem: god tricked us by placing light mid flight so would could believe ancient solar systems existed in the distant universe.
The reason for them insisting that evolution is a belief system is quite obvious, they want to legitimize their fantasy by placing it on level ground with cold hard science. What I find truly sad is that the reason for them rejecting evolution is so obvious and it goes beyond the god image argument. They are insulted considering that we came from a lesser life form. It’s far more majestic knowing that we came from an extremely improbable spark and a damn near countless number of births, trials and adaptations. Even imagining how many yeast cells have been born and died in my life is boggling. Intelligence save us from people who, believe therefore they are.
