(cont'd from yesterday's post)
"Did you know that Charles Darwin knew about the key issue in his theory that doesn't add up? Did you know that he was troubled that an entire field of scientific study opposes the key tenets of evolution?"
So starts the video in yesterday's post. This man of faith's purpose, he says, is to challenge skeptics, strengthen believers, and create a space for awesome discussions about God. He's making the case for intelligent design.
Today, conventional science and culture are dominated by a naturalistic paradigm which says that there is no divine designer or Creator God, and that all life forms developed according to Darwin's theory of (macro) evolution. So it's assumed that all opposition to this version of evolution must come from religious dogma or superstition.
But it's not so today, and it was not so in 1859. Leading paleontologists in Darwin's day would not adopt his theory because the whole field of paleontology painted a picture opposite to that which would have supported his theory. There should have been "innumerable" examples of animals in slow, gradual transition throughout the fossil record. But, on the contrary, new and complete body structures appear in the fossil record suddenly - without evolutionary precursors. (It's all in yesterday's 12-minute video.)
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