{"id":13913,"date":"2019-02-13T16:43:38","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T16:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/?p=13913"},"modified":"2019-02-13T17:36:58","modified_gmt":"2019-02-13T17:36:58","slug":"darwin-day-passes-unnoticed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/darwin-day-passes-unnoticed\/","title":{"rendered":"Darwin Day passes unnoticed"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Charles Darwin was born on ‘Darwin Day’!<\/figcaption><\/figure>Tuesday 12th February was Darwin Day, not that anyone noticed.<\/p>\n

31% don’t believe Darwin any more<\/h2>\n

Except Jeremy Vine. He reported on his television show yesterday how many people simply do not believe his Theory of Evolution any more. That’s Darwin’s Theory, not Jeremy’s. Apparently, says the Daily Mirror<\/b><\/a>, 31% of the UK population do not believe all we see \u2018just evolved’ Another 7% think Charles Darwin wrote \u2018The Da Vince Code’.<\/p>\n

And in 2009 the Daily Telegraph reported<\/b><\/a> a clear majority of Brits, 51% to 40%, ‘agreed with the statement that “evolution alone is not enough to explain the complex structures of some living things, so the intervention of a designer is needed at key stages”.’<\/p>\n

Charles Robert Darwin was born in Shrewsbury on 12th February 1809 and died on 19th April 1882. This year on\u2018Darwin Day’ he would have been 209. He published \u2018On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life’ in 1859. Even that is 159 years ago. <\/p>\n

Sciences like Genetics, Molecular Biology and Information Theory were unknown in Darwin’s day. We don’t do chronological snobbery here. We don’t think we are the cleverest people ever to have walked God’s earth. Nevertheless, Darwin’s tome really does look its age these days.<\/p>\n

Musical dropped<\/h2>\n

Meanwhile, a few days before, the BBC reported on<\/b><\/a> a school which has \u2018axed a musical on evolution over its suggestive lyrics and portrayal of Christian views.’<\/p>\n

Darwin Rocks, about the scientist Charles Darwin, was due to be performed by about 90 pupils at Hartford Manor Primary School, Cheshire, next month. The school said there had been six \u2018expressions of concern’ by parents.<\/p>\n

The musical’s publishers Musicline said it was written by a Christian, adding “we can’t ever recall having courted controversy before”.<\/p>\n

According to its website, the production is a \u2018light-hearted look’ at the work of Darwin.
\nHead teacher Simon Kidwell told the BBC that the school, in Hartford near Northwich, received the complaints over lyrics that refer to \u2018bump and grind’ – a sexually suggestive dance move.<\/p>\n

\u2018There were concerns about caricature,’ he said, adding the complainants, who include a science teacher from another school, felt its representation of Christian views on science \u2018wasn’t accurate’.<\/p>\n

Who is anti-science?<\/h2>\n

It has become fashionable to characterise the Christian or Biblical view that God created all there is as anti-science.<\/p>\n

But in truth, as we find out more about the natural world, it’s not that simple. Those who hold the evolutionist view really do see it as a matter of faith. And more and more problems are arising.
\nWe reported a couple of years ago<\/b><\/a> on the bio-energeticists who discovered that bacteria would never find the power to evolve into cells with a nucleus.<\/p>\n

Evolutionists hold that bacteria were the first forms of life to evolve. But cells with a nucleus, ‘eukaryotic’ cells, are the building blocks of life. The poor bio-energeticists had to resort to contending some external force must have intervened. But that is \u2018Deus ex machina’ by another name.<\/p>\n

Nature is inter-connected<\/h2>\n

Creationists have long shown that certain animals, or even processes, have \u2018irreducible complexity’. In other words, they simply could not evolve. Why have a stomach without a mouth and a means of evacuating waste? How did the bombardier beetle possibly evolve its extraordinary defence system? What happened to all the eggs while swallows were evolving the construction of their mud nests?<\/p>\n

For this author, the complexity of nature and all the interconnecting strands and food chains say it all had to be in place at the same time. Flowers and their pollinators are just one obvious example. So to this engineer, a six-day creation makes sense.<\/p>\n

Too many jobs in the biological sciences depend on the evolutionary faith-view for it to be dumped over-night. ‘Darwin Day’ might endure for a while longer. But a day is coming when those scientists will be found asking: \u2018Lord, how did you Do that?’<\/p>\n

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