(July 31, 2019 at 2:15 pm)Jackalope Wrote: Right, because computer scientists are experts in evolutionary biology.
Perhaps, but he should know better, he should educate himself if he wants to know something he didn't learn in school.
He does mention the books that shaped his decisions like "Darwin's Doubt" and when you look at the book you can see easily debunkable claims if you bother enough to look into books like biology textbook.
And also in the article there is an hour long video in which this computer professor along with the author of the previously mentioned book just repeat the usual creationist fallacies like "How can one species transfer into next?", "How can DNA be so complex", "How can proteins re-arrange like this?", "I don't understand this" - they don't give a shit in finding answers and educating themselves and, again, just shows how creationists love to indulge in dishonesty.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"