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Feb. 12, 2007 Up until the time of Charles Darwin, was anyone so willing to challenge, and try to beat down, the standing versions of the origins of life? So who are the masses to question the findings of someone in the know? At one point in history, humans believed, for the most part, that the Earth was flat and that the sun revolved around the Earth. They also believed that the sky and the clouds and stars in it were the location of super beings, either multiple gods or a singular god to which no one religion could lay to claim to it being. Over time, humans, like Darwin, went so far as to look for answers outside of the books of his time. With measurement and experiment, he came to the conclusion that living creatures changed both for adaptation to their environment and through the coming together of two alike creatures procreating and their genetic makeup changing their offspring. But the world of religion, all of them for the most part, want nothing more to have you believe that they have the one, true answer to the origins of life and they are located in their book du joir. While humans have come to learn, for the most part, not to believe everything that they read, they are not accepting of things that go against their particular faith nor does their faith want them to. Can you imagine a world where religious leaders allowed for science to dictate their followers. The idea that humanity can create life from a bunch of cells is next to god and, even though their is an intention of discovery behind it, religious leaders see it as an affront to their cash cow. So when it is reported in the New York Times today that a young Earth creationist gets a PhD in paleontology, discussing millions of years old fossils all the while believing that the Earth is only a couple of thousand years old, I have to shake my head to think that faith is even more a load of garbage. Dictating from a pulpit, a religious leader cherry picks their stories from their tome. They talk of how some men do good deeds and others do bad and that god sometimes imposes his will and others he lets them skate by. But when you allow for the end of the line on the origins of life to be that a week of work equals all of life on this planet and that, by their actions, a couple changes the fate of humanity, it only leads one to a dead end. No innovation, no questioning of what we instinctively feel is wrong. It is as if we would rather be led than ever lead or work on self-knowledge. But why does one shake their heads at some stories but not at others? Am I to believe that a large lumberjack and his blue ox once roamed the upper part of Minnesota before I was born? Am I to believe that a singular dinosaur still swims in a lake in Scotland, without offspring and without a mate? Humans didn't even understand dinosaurs until the prior century. They had no idea that they existed and, how convenient, they were drawn into the fold of dogma, as if they were there all along. But that is why blanket statements were created: To allow for any additions that would otherwise be refuted. Thus, when all the creatures of the earth were created in the bible, thus it could "technically" include dinosaurs. However, preposterous, I have to hand it to the authors of the bible. But most people don't want to spend the time researching anything for themselves and, heaven forbid, they deny their parents beliefs. I would think any godly parent would punish their child for refusing to follow their parents religion. In the bible, Old Testament, if a child is rebellious, we must stone them to death. Yep, bet you didn't hear about that in church but it is in the bible. While it may seem like I am only trying to pick a fight, I am really trying to provoke debate. Whether science is right or wrong, at least they are trying to figure things out with some sort of methodology. What are creation scientists doing? Lecturing pre-teens with their snake oil salesman ways. And I am sure they are getting paid to speak about it so that they can pretend to be trying to change the course of human knowledge. I just think they are slimy and greedy because they would rather you buy what they are selling rather than accepting the free information provided by scholars and scientists who wish nothing more than to advance human knowledge. Creation science is garbage and we should no more accept it than we should that money grows on trees. Time to move on and get educated. Peace. ------------ About the author: Nicholas Olson is an aspiring playwright and former journalist. He spent parts of his high school, college and professional life as a journalist, serving as a military journalist from 2000-06. Mr. Olson is an avid writer and enjoys political opinion. His views are not that of any particular party or of the country he once served: They are his own. Email: nicholasjolson@yahoo.com Comment on this article here! ------------ All articles are EXCLUSIVE to Useless-Knowledge.com. Please link to this article rather than copying and pasting it onto your site (which would be unauthorized and illegal). |
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