CREATION SCIENCE, PART 2

Last week, we shared the first freedom found in Creation Science. The second freedom is this:

2. Freedom from "magic" words.

Have you ever read (or heard) the following words and phrases used in scientific news articles, textbooks, or lectures?

• arose; emerged; appeared
• gave rise to…
• a miracle of evolution
• the early results of…
• burst onto the scene
• manufactured itself
• modified
• derived emergent properties
• on the way to becoming…
• evolution drove
• lucky

"Magic" words frequently show up in scientific literature and college classrooms. How often does the writer in the quote below reference “magic” words and ideas?

Four billion years ago, some congery of molecules danced, blindly catalyzing one another's formation, reaching a critical diversity at which self-sustaining webs of reactions emerged and formed life. Blind interactions gave rise to the emergent phenomena of cellular life, cells linked in metabolic exchanges blindly creating the first ecosystems. Those ecosystems have unfolded for over billions of years with a profusion of species emerging and passing into extinction. And at each level, we sense emergent lawfulness in the profusion. (Kaufman, Stuart, At Home in the Universe, 1995, p. 207.)

Brian Thomas addresses the technique of evolutionists using “magic” words to take the place of evidence and scientific proof in his article, Eye Evolution: Assumption, Not Science.

…Lamb granted god-like intelligence to an inanimate force he termed "selective pressures”….But only an intelligent agent—not passive, unthinking environmental factors—could fashion the massive collection of interdependent parts that form vertebrate eyes. Lamb also wrote that "natural selection…tinkers with the material available to it," when in reality only persons can "tinker."

...In telling his eye evolution story, Lamb used terms such as tinkers, diverged, proliferated, arose, arisen, favoring, insert themselves, invention, modified, emergence, and evolved—ignoring the fact that no one has ever observed unthinking, undirected "selective pressures" doing or causing any of those things. These "magic" words mask evolution's lack of real scientific explanations for eye origins and "convey wish-like convictions that if evolutionists just believe deeply enough, their explanations must be true and someday will be true—though currently resisted by all scientific evidence."

Defining “magic” words, Dr. Randy Guliuzza said,

Magic words lack explanatory power because they fail to tie real observations to detailed descriptions of howfeatures of design originate.

To dig deeper, check out the rest of Dr. Guliuzza's article here!

When you hear “magic” words thrown around in a science conversation, how do you respond?

http://www.youroriginsmatter.com/conversations/view/creation-science-part-2/164