First, let me recognize that I am painting with a broad brush. No doubt, the vast majority of what science teaches us is honest and true.
Today’s post deals with a small sliver of science……Darwinian evolution. I believe that the science surrounding Darwinian evoultion is dishonest.
For some background, I was a chemistry major in college and worked as a physician for my entire adult life. By any comparison…….I am a scientist. Early on, I learned about the “scientific method”:
Propose a hypothesis…….a theory.
Repeatedly test the theory…….compare it to measurable fact. If it explains the facts, keep the theory. If it fails to explain a fact, propose a new theory and test the new theory. Keep changing the theory and if necessary replacing it until it explains the facts……..all of them.
Einstein was a brilliant guy. His 2 great accomplishments are the theories of general relativity and special relativity. These theories explain a lot. But there are things that they cannot explain. So……people a lot smarter than me are working hard to correct Einstein. They recognise that Einstein’s theories, though brilliant are not the truth. They are looking hard for a theory that can replace Einstein. This is sometimes called “the theory of everything”. This is the scientific method at its finest. This is honest science. This is how I was taught to conduct science.
But, Darwin is not treated that way. There are countless observed facts that Darwin fails to explain:
The human genome is far too large to have accumulated by mutation/natural selection in the time since life began.
How did the genetic trait of nearsightedness survive natural selection. A nearly blind hunter/gatherer would surely have had difficulty mating?
How did millions of human traits cross the Atlantic and Pacific oceans in the age Neanderthal man?
Why do we not see evidence of human evolution today? Did someone turn Darwin off?
How did childhood diabetes, hemophilia, and hundreds of other genetic diseases survive natural selection?
What about the “missing link” between man and the primordial ooze…….(there are actually hundreds of millions of missing links)?
Any one of these failures of Darwinian evolution should cause an honest scientist to reject Darwin and begin looking for another explanation……a better explanation. But that is not what happens. Science either ignores the failure or applies an unproven and unprovable “patch” to the problem.
The problem, it turns out is very simple.
There is only one viable replacement for Darwinian evolution…….intelligent design.
There is only one viable replacement for Darwin…..God.
The problem is that……in the scientific community…….intelligent design……God……is against the rules. And so science clings to Darwin…….warts and all.
And that is dishonest.
Our teachers teach Darwinian evolution to our children as a fact without ever addressing the failures of the theory.
And that is dishonest.
I’m not asking that they teach Genesis in the classroom. But, I am asking that they teach Darwin…..honestly.
Then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature. And the Lord God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and there he put the man whom he had formed.
Moses, ESV
For you formed my inward parts;
you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.
I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Wonderful are your works;
my soul knows it very well.
My frame was not hidden from you,
when I was being made in secret,
intricately woven in the depths of the earth.
Your eyes saw my unformed substance;
in your book were written, every one of them,
the days that were formed for me,
when as yet there was none of them.
David, ESV
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you,
and before you were born I consecrated you;
I appointed you a prophet to the nations.”
God, speaking to Jeremiah, ESV