RE: Argument #1: Transitional Fossils
April 22, 2014 at 11:31 pm
(This post was last modified: April 22, 2014 at 11:35 pm by SteelCurtain.)
(April 22, 2014 at 11:20 pm)Revelation777 Wrote: You know what is ironic as well, Darwin did not deny that there was a God! In fact, in his sixth addition of Origin he refers to the Creator.That's because to say so in Victorian England had consequences. Or he believed in God. Either one, makes not one bit of difference to his theory.
One of best-known criticisms of natural selection was that nothing as complicated as an eye could have evolved purely by chance. Darwin's response was that we can observe many examples of the evolution of light-sensitive cells in nature. The most intriguing thought Darwin had on this subject was that just because we don't understand how something can evolve does not mean that the Creator wasn't behind it. His exact words in the sixth edition of Origin were "Have we any right to assume that the Creator works by intellectual powers like those of man?"[v]. Using the telescope as an example of a man-made optical instrument, he added: "May we not believe that a living optical instrument might thus be formed as superior to one of glass, as the works of the Creator are to man?"
reference
Charles Darwin. The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, Or The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. Sixth Edition, With Additions and Corrections to 1872. London: John Murray, 1876.
Darwin never said that there was not a Creator. And he never said that the Creator didn't create life.
And seriously, if you are going to copy and paste from an article, at least give the article credit. That is called plagiarism. And it's against the rules here. And it is even more evidence that you are a person who will lie to further his personal ideology.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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