Posted by eman on September 16, 1998 at 11:28:33:
In Reply to: No proof of evolution, just deep thoughts.... posted by John on September 15, 1998 at 13:16:44:
The reason that almost all scientists have accepted that evolution has occurred on this planet over billions of years is that there is an immense amount of scientific evidence and data to support it. Also some small evolutionary mechanisms have been repeated in the lab. One reason it is becoming so difficult to keep up with antibiotics that will kill the various viruses and germs out there is that they are evolving/mutating into different strains that are immune to the antibiotics. The only science that can support Creation is to misstate, misunderstand and distort scientific principles and evidence to make them appear to support a theory that is supported by a literal reading of the Bible alone. To this day, nearly every "scientific" arguement in support of young-earth creationism has been exposed to be a sham by those who truly understand basic scientific principles and methods. If the so-called Creation Scientists have research to support there cause, why don't they present it to the world and the scientific community for scrutiny? It is not that the scientific community is biased against their research; they do not even submit research to be published. Those few that have submitted research documents in the past have been rejected, not because there was a bias against their ideas, but because the research is academically deficient and fails to follow even the basic scientific methods and standards. If you just read some of their literature, it is laughable. Many of the leading Creationists, such as Carl Baugh, Kent Hovind, Kelley Segraves, Thomas Barnes, Richard Bliss, Clifford Burdick, John Grebe, Don Patton, and Harold Slusher, to name a few, have very questionable academic credentials. Many have supposed degrees from schools with no accreditation and many are widely considered diploma mills. Some even hawk their honorary doctorates as if they are actual earned degrees. Those in the Creationist movement who actually have valid credentials usually have obtained degrees outside of the realm of biology, anthropology, paleontology, etc., and therefore are no more an expert on the origins of life on this planet than the average aerospace engineer or computer scientist.