Bible, creation still split opinion; YourSay.JAMES Fowler This article is about European football player. For the Political Science professor at the University of California, San Diego, see James H. Fowler. For the Theology professor at Emory University, see James W. Fowler. in a letter to Your Say refers to the Bible as a Terry Pratchett Terence David John Pratchett, OBE (born 28 April 1948) is a British fantasy and science fiction author, best known for his Discworld series. Other works include the Johnny Maxwell Trilogy and the Bromeliad Trilogy. fantasy story. Hmm, would this be the same Bible that has inspired famous writers and artists to create some of the world's most beautiful and enduring works of art? Would this be the same Bible that has helped shape the entire civilization of mankind as it stands today? What a shallow mind. I think that most forward thinking people accept in some way or other, that evolution has, and is taking a hand in strengthening and diversifying all organic life on earth. However, could this not be a part of some larger plan? Today's foremost theoretical MR HANCOCK now seems to be saying that Darwin and Genesis are both wrong. Perhaps he could explain? He refers to errors in the "St James Bible" (think he means King James) but doesn't give examples; claims the support of 'experts', but doesn't name them; rejects all the evidence for evolution, but doesn't say what he would accept as evidence. What would I accept as evidence for creationism creationism or creation science, belief in the biblical account of the creation of the world as described in Genesis, a characteristic especially of fundamentalist Protestantism (see fundamentalism). ? A single confirmed example of (say) a bird fossil found in rocks of the Carboniferous or earlier. Just one such fossil would be enough to rock Darwinism to its physicists and cosmologists can trace the formation of the universe all the way back to the Big Bang big bang Model of the origin of the universe, which holds that it emerged from a state of extremely high temperature and density in an explosive expansion 10 billion–15 billion years ago. , when matter and energy erupted into being. They can not however, explain how or why this happened, and they have already dumped the steady state theory. Words from (Terry Pratchett's) Bible spring to mind: Let there be light. T O'Brien, Winsford Avenue, Allesley Park, Coventry.. foundations - as well as bringing fame and fortune to its discoverer - but it's never happened. Darwinism has been sticking its neck out for 150 years, but survives with flying colours. What does that suggest to you, Mr Hancock? Mike Wright, Bradestone Road, Nuneaton.. |
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