Winnipeg Free Press Sunday, November 19, 2000
Geoff Casey
Editorial
Scientists back Day's views
Sat, Nov 18, 2000
ON Nov. 15, the CBC Newsmagazine broadcast a documentary that
had much to say about Stockwell Day's creationist views and then
the next
day in the Free Press we read that "Day's beliefs create furore:
(because
he) supports biblical version of creation." For many, Day's views
will
understandably seem ludicrous because once again the public was
treated
to the usual rhetoric of the evolutionist, this time
in
the person of Pliny Hayes, head of the department of natural
science at
Red Deer College in Alberta. I believe he was the same gentleman
who was
interviewed for the CBC program.
Hayes is quoted as saying that science shows the Earth to be several
billions of years old and humans came after dinosaurs. Further,
he
expresses concern that contrary to the Alliance document, Day
will not
fund science in Canada because Day does not believe many of the
findings
of science since they conflict with his beliefs based upon Scripture.
Well, like so many professors today that I've had a chance to
listen to,
Hayes expresses opinions that are not based upon the facts. And
let me
add as an aside that, unfortunately, I've encountered many professors
in
universities that will hardly stand to listen to the facts. So
much for
academic objectivity. The experience of creationists worldwide
is that
this problem is endemic in our universities but does not seem
to be
realized by most of our liberal media who are all too anxious
to have
their evolutionary views supported when they interview these
academics.
The scientific case for young Earth creationism has convinced
many
scientists over the last few decades, and I could list quite
a few. Many
of these switched from evolution to creation and they include
biologists
and physicists, as well as biochemists.
They would readily back Day in his views. The much-maligned
Institute for Creation Research near San Diego is staffed by
a number of
former evolutionists.
I have in my library a number of books by evolutionists highly
critical
of evolutionary theory and asking the serious question: "Is there
any
science to support evolution?" If the reader supposes that those
who
question evolution might be less than intellectual consider one
such
book, Shattering the Myths of Darwinism, written by Richard Milton,
who
is a member of Mensa. He began to ask questions when his Grade
9 daughter
came home with some pretty questionable science.
Day would get backing, I am sure, from the creationist and physicist,
Raymond V. Damadien, the inventor of the MRI technology that
is so useful
worldwide in medical diagnostics. He would also get backing from
Jules
Poirier, who has invented many things, among which is numbered
a
mechanism that enabled the lunar lander to do its job.
There are many other credible scientists today, who evolutionists
do not
recognize as scientists because of their young Earth view, who
would
support Day. Yes, they are in the minority it would seem, but
science is
never determined by majority vote, as evolutionists seem to think.
In the propaganda that evolutionists write for general consumption,
they try to characterize the modern creationism movement as having
nothing to do with the great creationists of the past who were
instrumental in bringing about the scientific revolution of the
16th and
17th centuries. But the discerning reader can discover in the
history of
science that today's creationist shares pretty well the same
views with
Sir Isaac Newton, Galileo, Copernicus, Faraday, Lord Kelvin and
numerous
others who laid the foundations of modern science and whose discoveries
are still very much useful and make today's technology possible.
And
because today's creationists have a far better understanding
of science
than their evolutionary opponents grant them credit for, they
are making
significant discoveries as alluded to above. But, of course,
they believe
in a real God and that this God has communicated meaningfully
with
mankind; this is the rub for evolutionists.
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