Max9 So you believe to be smarter than Charles Darwin or Albert Einstein by doubting their statements?
Ah the classic cry of the religious apologists when challenged. What an incredibly low-cost (cheap) shot.
But since I love a good debate, Iāll take the bait. Einstein was smart yes, but definitely not all knowing. I doubt anyone would consider him to have any expertise in biology. It is not recorded anywhere that he knew how to perform a hysterectomy - something I have done countless times. š¤£ He wasnāt the greatest mathematician either! Much of the mathematics behind his general relativity was done with mentoring from Marcel Grossman. It is unrecorded whether Einstein or Darwin knew the torturous path of the recurrent laryngeal nerve. š¤£
So, instead of pussyfooting around, let me make a bald statement. If Einstein (or Darwin) had the same facts at their disposal as I do, and didnāt laugh at the idea of a designer that had some real intelligence, then well I suppose I am smarter than both of them ā at least when it comes to such reasoning. š Of course, I probably have more relevant knowledge on which to weigh my judgement than either of them and it is easy to understand the magicianās trick once you know how it was done ā so I canāt take too much credit for my brilliance.
Of course, Iāll bow to Einsteinās creativity on thinking outside of the box on relativity and Darwinās knowledge of the natural world and putting the incredible jig-saw puzzle pieces together to come up with the theory of evolution.
And possibly if interest is that Darwin was brought up steeped in religious dogma. So much so that when he wrote his last paragraph in āThe Origin of Speciesā he wrote:
There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.
In the second edition many religious scholars point out he changed it to:
There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.
But in March 1863, Darwin wrote about the inclusion of the three significant words by the creator to his friend and scientific confidante Joseph Hooker:-
"I have long regretted that I truckled to public opinion & used Pentateuchal term of creation, by which I really meant āappearedā by some wholly unknown process. It is mere rubbish thinking, at present, of origin of life; one might as well think of origin of matter."
This suggest to me that Darwin would have indeed have understood what ārubbish thinkingā the concept of an intelligent designer really is.
