I am amazed by the amount of creationist people in the USA. People that take the bible literally, and believe in Archae Noah and such kind of things. I have been told that in some states the evolution is not at all teached in biology classrooms. I think this is really scandalous. In Europe (oldfashioned continent) we do not have this kind of problems. Whereas in the modern country of NASA, Coca Cola, you still have such dogmatic views on religious creationism.
But there are also several versions of creationism, some which can get highly scientific. I have also tryied to learn some of the more sofisticated arguments. And believe me, it is not as easy to disproof them. Not even if you are a biologist.
After some time I came to the conclusion, that the conflict between evolutionist and creationist is because both are very radical. And sometimes, I really have to say... the evolutionist do not really understand evolution.
For example, when people say that Darwin was wrong, some evolutionist protest inmediately and say that Darwin is not wrong but his original theory is totally correct. But almost no modern biologist reads the original book of Darwin.
Fact is that the original theory of Darwin is not fully correct. What biology students learn at university is the synthetic theory of evolution. Some call it Neodarwinism.
Darwin was wrong as much as Newton was wrong. He was not fully accurate. This is not a sin in science. The problem is when you speak to a creationist that states that Darwin was wrong and you then try to defend Darwin... so they get suspicious and nobody really wants to accet the arguments of the other.
To provide you with better arguments, I would like to say why Darwin was wrong. I could go on for pages but I want to make it extremely short.
Take the title of his book... on the origins of species by means of natural selection...
Already here you can see his mistake. The title suggest that new species are formed by natural selection. So natural selection is the reason for the different species?
And this is wrong. Natural selection kills species, but it does not create new ones. There is no case of the emergence of various species by natural selection alone. New species emerge by mutation in the DNA. Natural selection decreases the number of species. It is the random mutations that create new species.
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