Julia Nelson's List: Evolution vs. Creationism

• To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I confess, absurd in the highest degree.

   

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  — The Origin of Species, 1859 

• Some are being failed in university exams because they quote sayings from the Bible or Qur'an as scientific fact
• In the United States there is growing pressure to teach creationism or "intelligent design" in science classes, despite legal rulings against it. Now similar trends in this country have prompted the Royal Society, Britain's leading scientific academy, to confront the issue head on with a talk entitled Why Creationism is Wrong.
• And irrationality is a very infectious disease as we see from the United States.

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• 6. Can an Evolutionist Be a Christian?