tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post3927485317587496314..comments2024-03-28T15:39:28.239-04:00Comments on Vital Remnants: Evolutionist response to new Gallup poll further evidence that humans are evolving into creationistsMartin Cothranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16452612266051351726noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post-80978251105053904432008-10-19T00:51:00.000-04:002008-10-19T00:51:00.000-04:00evolutionists have the Origin of the Species.Evolu...<I>evolutionists have the Origin of the Species.</I><BR/><BR/>Evolutionists, also known as people who are not uneducated hicks, have a lot more than one book written in the 19th century. There has been about 150 years of scientific progress since that book was written. For example, biologists now have the complete genome of the human ape and chimpanzee ape species. When they compare DNA sequencesAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post-8027726570779105002007-07-05T14:09:00.000-04:002007-07-05T14:09:00.000-04:00Dave,I don’t necessarily disagree with much of wha...Dave,<BR/><BR/>I don’t necessarily disagree with much of what you say here, although I think Intelligent Design is quite obviously a different animal from young earth creationism, since many of it’s adherents explicitly reject young earth creationism. Also, I would contend that if ID is not science strictly speaking, it may inhabit a sort of gray area on the outskirts of the discipline, much as Martin Cothranhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16452612266051351726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post-61884608244775204832007-07-01T16:23:00.000-04:002007-07-01T16:23:00.000-04:00David, Good to hear from you. I have always admi...David,<BR/><BR/> Good to hear from you. I have always admired Clarence Darrow who said at one point during the Scopes trial that he did not seek to attack people of faith. <BR/><BR/>Your initial post reminded me how easy it is for any of us to go for the throat where certain issues are concerned and I'm grateful that you accepted my apology.<BR/><BR/>Richard Dawkins has certainly not done much JPrichardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05381079359437388944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post-14884819128940349942007-06-27T12:29:00.000-04:002007-06-27T12:29:00.000-04:00I have been following this post with continuing in...I have been following this post with continuing interest. Let me say first, to Mr. Prichard, that I appreciate your response to my post. I have read all of your posts with interest and I agree with much of what you have to say. I think the Intelligent Design and Creationists are talking more about faith than science, and are backing into their scientific views from their particular faith David Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09359262950336900169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post-47649589428307221332007-06-26T22:53:00.000-04:002007-06-26T22:53:00.000-04:00Your response makes a valid point in the sense tha...Your response makes a valid point in the sense that, like Dr. Kenneth Miller, author of Finding Darwin's God, I agree that the acerbic anti-religious barbs of Dawkins and others have done much to equate evolution with atheism in the public mind.<BR/><BR/>But it is equally true, Martin, that each side has heaped scorn and ridicule upon the other since the fundamentalist crusade against Darwinism JPrichardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05381079359437388944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post-55877071055710190382007-06-22T01:22:00.000-04:002007-06-22T01:22:00.000-04:00My post was, of course, largely (and pretty clearl...My post was, of course, largely (and pretty clearly) tongue in cheek, although I did want to make a serious point about the way that evolutionists make their case to the public. They complain that they are not making the headway in persuading the non-scientific public of the evolutionary theory that they would like or expect, and yet, I think, they have only themselves to blame. In too many Martin Cothranhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16452612266051351726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post-73220439556022084162007-06-22T00:31:00.000-04:002007-06-22T00:31:00.000-04:00Mr. Charlton:Your point is both valid and well tak...Mr. Charlton:<BR/><BR/>Your point is both valid and well taken. I am more than willing to admit that in my efforts to challenge Mr.Cothran's recent posting I crossed the line with the comment you referred to.<BR/><BR/>While I honestly feel that today's anti-evolution crusade is just as irrational as that of the 20's and that contemporary critics of evolution use the same scare tactics as their JPrichardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05381079359437388944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post-15067235420441675172007-06-21T22:17:00.000-04:002007-06-21T22:17:00.000-04:00This post is in response to the next to the last p...This post is in response to the next to the last post by jprichard. I found your use of the phrase "home-schooled" logic to be offensive, which I imagine is what you intended. Are you insinuating that home-schooled people are fearful, ignorant, anti-evolutionary zealots? If so, you greatly misunderstand the reasons millions of people have joined the home-schooling movement. There are some David Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09359262950336900169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post-28722420909752357372007-06-20T22:27:00.000-04:002007-06-20T22:27:00.000-04:00PS:Brother Ham is not irrational...just blinded by...PS:<BR/><BR/>Brother Ham is not irrational...just blinded by faith. Like some other people I could name.JPrichardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05381079359437388944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post-34099676950481155072007-06-20T22:09:00.000-04:002007-06-20T22:09:00.000-04:00Surely a mighty wind has swept forth from Danville...Surely a mighty wind has swept forth from Danville - bearing all the force of "home schooled" logic.<BR/><BR/>But tell us Martin why did you dance away from the boasting premise of your original posting like a whirling dervish? Have you chosen a new form of spiritual expression or did you simply not want to look into the mirror I held before you? <BR/><BR/>The Gallup poll revealed that most JPrichardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05381079359437388944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post-55033651636547025152007-06-16T21:23:00.000-04:002007-06-16T21:23:00.000-04:00JPrichard:Amen, Brother Prichard!I only wish I cou...JPrichard:<BR/><BR/>Amen, Brother Prichard!<BR/><BR/>I only wish I could join you down at the Holy Darwinist Tabernacle of the Evolutionary Brotherhood, where the shouting and dancing is even louder and more vigorous than over at Brother Ham’s. <BR/><BR/>I do truly understand your reticence about becoming involved in Brother Ham’s “1920’s tent revival disguised as a Creation Museum,” and yet I Martin Cothranhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16452612266051351726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post-5570152471764339112007-06-16T14:16:00.000-04:002007-06-16T14:16:00.000-04:00Lordy, Brother Ham! Brother Cothran surely has the...Lordy, Brother Ham! Brother Cothran surely has the "gospel fever" now!<BR/><BR/>Despite your feeble claims that you do not support the Dinosaur Evangelist, you certainly seem ready to rush right into Brother Ham's 1920's tent revival disguised as a Creation Museum.<BR/><BR/>What will you celebrate next? An upsurge in the number of Flat Earthers? Or Geocentrists?<BR/><BR/>Actually we agree to a JPrichardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05381079359437388944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post-38713879253412866632007-06-15T10:42:00.000-04:002007-06-15T10:42:00.000-04:00I agree.I agree.Martin Cothranhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16452612266051351726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post-41765187870229503962007-06-15T01:50:00.000-04:002007-06-15T01:50:00.000-04:00I really must see your books on logic.I really must see your books on logic.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com