(October 19, 2015 at 12:54 pm)Blondie Wrote: I am not sure how to put this to get my idea across so please do not take any offense to it. Evolution has been said to have scientific evidence behind it. Now some creationists have also used science to show the earth much younger than what is originally thought. I can't find it right off the bat. But anyway, since science is science, both Creationists and Evolutionists use science to back their claims, who is right?
Science isn't just a label that you put on ideas, science is a method that demonstrably leads to accurate results if done correctly and taking into account all the variables. It's not a question of "creationists and evolutionists both use science," but one of whether they are adhering to the scientific method. One particular tenet of that method is to strive to remove bias from your work in every possible way you can, and I can say concretely that creationists fail this right off the bat because every last "creation science" group trumpeting some young earth experiment has a statement of faith right there in their group charter demanding obeisance to christian ideas before scientific conclusions. No scientist or group studying evolution has that.
If you want to find out who is right then you must examine the methodology and conclusions behind the reports, instead of just throwing up your hands and saying "they both use science!" For example, there are no experimental findings that lead to creationist conclusions, and for that matter no experiments being done to test creationist ideas: what actually happens is that creationists take the work of other people, stretch it to fit their presupposed conclusion, and then trumpet it as "totally science!" All you get out of "creation science" is a series of arguments from ignorance and bending over backward to preserve christianity.
Meanwhile, the science on evolution presents a mountain of experimental and observational data, including lengthy explanations of why it all works the way it does, and that is all that needs to be said. No stretching required. The simple fact of the matter is that evolution needs to be true for foundational principles of modern medicine, biology and archaeology to work, among others. The fact that medicines predicated on the premise that diseases evolve work as intended, that biology predicated on the premise that mutations occur within populations and can be monitored or manipulated works as intended, and that archaeology predicated on the premise that fossils can be located based on predictions of where they'd fall in the evolutionary timeline works as intended, demonstrates that evolution is, indeed, factual. Case closed.
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