100 Reasons Why Evolution Is Stupid - Part 2
100 Reasons Why Evolution Is Stupid - Part 2
From the mistakes of the first part of this series I make a few clarifications.
1. I don't agree with Hovind on much, I just think, quite possibly in my admitted ignorance, that he has raised some good points. If you take your science so seriously that you don't have the time to rewrite "Evolution for Dummies" for me then this thread isn't for you. Move on and save us both a great deal of time.
2. The subject here is, to me, more religious than it is science. I'm sorry, that is just the way I see it. Before I ever saw Hovind. What I am interested in is gaining some perspective on what science minded atheists think about the points I raise as inspired by the video series. I would like to think that if I were an atheist and I wondered why Creationists thought the heavens and earth were created in 144 hours the Hebrew yohm (day), bara (create), asah (make), ohr (light) and maohr (light source) would be explained.
3. I don't hate science I just have a lack of interest in it. I'm not trying to argue or debate with you I just see some interesting difficulties which, although I certainly don't consider myself qualified to debate I would like to discuss. This isn't a creation / evolution debate. I am trying, with a great deal of success, I might add, to avoid the subject of God and the Bible throughout most of this thread. I'm not a "Creationist." I believe in the creation account of Genesis but not in the "unscriptural" or "unscientific" interpretation of the creationists.
4. The jist of the video, in my opinion, is that evolution isn't science, it is religious. Belief. Unscientific. I know that almost all of you disagree with this. You don't have to argue it. I ask that you answer or address the points being made.
Here is the second part of the video in case you would like to see it. It isn't necessary as I am only drawing my points from it. I will present each point clearly, simply and briefly.
1. Termites. The "little critters" in termites stomachs which digest the cellulose can't survive without the termites and the termites can't survive without the critters. Which evolved first?
2. Hovind doesn't know where God comes from and says that science doesn't know where the "dirt" or matter came from as a result of the Big Bang, and since it isn't known he assumes it isn't science. It is religion.
3. Conservation of Angular Momentum - If the universe began as a swirling dot why do some planets (2) and moons (6) spin "backward"?
4. Galaxies and voids - If the Big Bang were true why isn't matter evenly distributed?
5. Novas and supernovas - If stars evolve why do star deaths not equal star births? Supernova are observed every 30 years but there are less than 300 of them in billions of years. (keeping in mind that I don't believe in a YEC)
6. Radio polonium halos - If the Earth formed from a hot mass 4.6 billion years ago then why would the polonium halos not have melted?