re rawlins debunks creationism in article apr rambo atlanta dg com wpr atlanta dg com bill rawlins writes we are talking about origins not merely science science cannot explain origins for a person to exclude anything but science from the issue of origins is to say that there is no higher truth than science this is a false premise by the way i enjoy science it is truly a wonder observing god s creation macroevolution is a mixture of percent science and percent religion guaranteed within three percent error let us explore this interesting paragraph point by point sentence by sentence we are talking about origins not merely science origins of what are we speaking of the origins of life the human species the universe physical law biological diversity or what science cannot explain origins this is a false statement unless it is carefully qualified it depends on what origins we are talking about for a person to exclude anything but science from the issue of origins is to say that there is no higher truth than science again this is a false statement to begin with the notion of higher truth is distinctly dubious many people believe that there are ways to ascertain truth that are not in the repetoire of science they even believe that there are ways that are more reliable and certain many believe that there are truths that cannot be expressed using the language of science let it be so these truths are neither higher or lower they are simply true more to the point restricting one s discussion of origins to science does not reject other sources of knowledge it simply restricts the scope of discussion this is a false premise if this is intended as asserting that the previous sentence was false then is actually true however the context identifies it as another false or at least theologically unsound statement by the way i enjoy science on the evidence mr rawlins lacks sufficient understanding of science to enjoy science in any meaningful sense one might just as well say that one enjoys literature written in a language that one cannot read however one cannot mark this sentence as false to follow the analogy perhaps he likes the pretty shapes of the letters it is truly a wonder observing god s creation let us not quibble count this one as true macroevolution is a mixture of percent science and percent religion guaranteed within three percent error still another false statement however one can make it come out true with the following contextual modification macroevolution as misunderstood by rawline is a mixture of percent of what rawlins erroneously thinks of as science and percent of what rawlins erroneously thinks of as religion it is distinctly noticeable that mr rawlins fails miserably to touch on truth except when he reports personally on what he feels i do him the justice of assuming that he is not misinforming us as to his personal reactions one can account for this by the hypothesis that he has an idiosyncratic and personal concept of truth richard harter smds inc net address rh smds com phone us mail smds inc po box concord ma fax in the fields of hell where the grass grows high are the graves of dreams allowed to die
