My opinion on evolution is that it is purely a
belief system based on the book by Charles Darwin,
On the Origin of the Species , to explain away the existence of the Creator,
Actually evolution is a scientific theory that says nothing about a creator. As a matter of fact to my knowledge the majority of evolutionary scientists are christian i dont know how many are islamic.
the One God - Allah. In stark contrast, creationism is also a belief system based on the Bible, the Holy Quran and other religous texts to point to the very existence of the Creator and to establish our relationship with Him. Is it any more wonderous as to why one would work so hard to disprove something as to why others try to prove it?
Science just tries to discover the truth and the how and why.
You may say that creationism is unscientifically simplistic and that those things that can't be logically explained are attributed to a man-made concept of God.
Creationism isnt a science, a belief yes but not a science.
My premise is that atheists start with the basic
belief that there is no God and that they look for evidence to disprove His existence.
True atheism is a belief and I would say that it depends on the atheist. Some like Dawkins is out there doing as you say. Others just look at things from their point of view and rather look for proof of no god, they find no proof of a god.
As a cotton breeder/geneticist working to develop genetically engineered cotton varieties, I have some understanding of genetical and biological principles.
You breed cotton? Cool. I actually grew up around many a cotten field.
My limited understanding of these principles dictates that I believe in a Creator.
How so?
My amazement at the miracle of life makes it impossible for me to believe that life even began by mere chance at the most basic single cell level, much less that "evolution" explains how this supposed primal single cell "evolved" into the highest life form, humankind, by random chance mutations and by natural selection without a Higher Power guiding the process.
Evolution has nothing to do with the creation of life but rather what happened after life was created or formed. All evo pretty much does is explain the variety of life and how it came to be.
With recent advances in knowledge of biology and genetics, man still cannot recreate under the most ideal conditions even a single celled organism from elemental components (carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, etc.)
True but that doesnt mean its impossible. It took us a good long time to learn how to fly. Creating life from jsut chemicals is a little tough.
For me, it makes no difference whether Allah literally fashioned the first man, Adam, from clay and breathed life into him, or whether this was a symbolic parable that Allah used to explain a more complicated process that He manipulated and continues to guide.
Cool, thats the view that many evo scientists hold.
I just can't understand how evolution without a guiding Higher Power can explain the origin of species through random genetic mutations and survival of the fittest.
I would recomend a website by berkley and of course wiki is a good resource.
http://evolution.berkeley.edu/
Fossil records of so-called bridging species means absolutely nothing regarding the existence of God.
True.I believe in God and atheists disbelieve in Him and neither can convicingly scientifically "prove" his point to the other because evolution and creation are beliefs that have no proof either way.
True there is no proof but proof is only for math and beer.
However there is a tremendous amount of evidence for evolution plus it has been observed in plant, bacteria, and other life forms.
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