Question: Does it really matter how humans came into existance?
Well... uh... it's the... y'know... driving force behind all human will to understand the universe? I don't know about you, but I for one, and i'd think about 6 or so billion other people on this planet, would like to know definitively about where they came from. To completely ignore our origins is to abandon all scientific and philosophical progress.
Besides can't creationism and evolution coexist seeing as "a day in heaven is like unto a thousand years" (meaning much, much longer). Furthermore, unless I'm mistaken, the days of creation follow the same general path of evolution.
Wrong. Just wrong. No explanation needed, it's just common sense. Any 8-year old can tell you what's wrong with that, so I won't bore you.
Let's not forget that science is a process of trial and error. Taking something like evolution as complete truth when we don't have complete proof nor likely ever will due to the time such a process would involve would make darwinian evolution no different than a religion IMO.
Did... uh... did anyone say evolution is 100% complete truth? Trial an error is one thing, but we're talking about decades upon decades of research and modification to the original theory, backed up by copious amounts of
observable and testable material. This ain't some book from a couple thousand years ago we're talking about, we're not simply pulling things out of the air because they sound cool,
we've seen this s*** in action. An interesting thing to note is the irony that the theory of evolution actually 'evolves', in that sciene is generally willing to admit it's wrong when presented with contradicting data, something that
certainly can't be said for creationists.
Remember, there is more observable evidence [a good word that, 'evidence'] for the Theory of Evolution than there is for the Theory of Gravity. Just food for thought.
Will humans ever know definitively, with proof, how life was created? No.
I disagree completely, and to take that view is - as I said earlier - to abandon all scientific and philosophical progress in favour of sitting on our collective arses until we're extinct. Although, if you're cool with doing that, fine by me.
Back OT: Regarding that "textbook", Zman, I wouldn't use that tripe to wipe my arse. There is so much circular logic and false conclusions drawn in that book [and i've only read the first three pages] that I am simply aghast that such a publication could have gotten
anywhere near the classroom, let alone into a school at all! Hell, the fact alone that the book takes the existance of God as a universal given is a dead giveaway that there is about as much good science within those pages as there is Swedish supermodels within my bedroom.
