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Originally posted by: ricarleite
JediSage, it wasn't clear to me if you oppose darwinism because of your religion or because you simply dosen't "belive" it. To me, there's nothing to "belive", it's the truth. I mean, how many people today "belive" the Earth spins around the Sun, and not the opposite? People don't belive it, they KNOW that. Darwin's evolutionary theory is true, it has been documented, studied, and prooven. Even the church has partially agreed with it, in it's route to modernization.
And it's not "random", it dosen't work like that. On every specie, future generations may have different atributes, and if those atributes are better for survival, those "different" species are most likely to survive and perpetuate their own species. It's logical to me.
My reasons for believing what I do are many-fold, however a belief rooted in religion should not necessarily disqualify it without a hearing. Couching an argument as Science vs Religion automatically puts the folks who may be religious on the defensive, and I have to ask who's being more dogmatic in that situation. Unfortunately it seems like that happens a lot nowadays when Darwinism is called into question.
Anyhoo. A theory is just that...a theory. Theory: Noun, An assumption based on limited information or knowledge, a conjecture. Theories have been disproven or modified in the past. Darwin's theory has been used to "prove" evolution as the origin of species (no pun intended), however as an origin theory it falls short by a mile. For instance, what fossil record is there indicating that one order evolved from another (transitional)? Is there evidence that one order at one point was a different order (ie: a dog that became a horse)? Does the complex almost mathematical code in DNA have a natural (random, blind) order? Why would Einstein have said "God does not play dice with the cosmos" if he had not at least considered a designed universe? There are other reasons to believe in a designed universe...the Big Bang (an ultimate beginning in time and space), the conservation of matter (matter can neither be created or destroyed)...it goes on and on.
BTW: I do believe the more moderate Darwin theory that evolution is responsible for changes in an already existing species over time. This is often called Survival of the Fittest. However, and I realize this is off topic in this thread...a lot of the people who tend to buy into Darwinism as an explanation for origin, tend to forget this piece of the theory. For example, over the weekend I saw one of those "amazing video" programs where these folks from some environmentalist program went nuts trying to save a polar bear that climbed up a cliff and couldn't get down. Why bother? Hasn't it been "selected" to die?