{"id":1648,"date":"2012-08-16T18:26:08","date_gmt":"2012-08-16T22:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=1648"},"modified":"2012-08-16T18:26:08","modified_gmt":"2012-08-16T22:26:08","slug":"the-evolution-diversion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1648","title":{"rendered":"“the evolution diversion”"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m really not quite sure what the purpose of this article in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune is: Scientist talks about his faith<\/a>. But I will post an interesting portion here and leave it up to you folks to comment, as I know you will.<\/p>\n

“Because of my scientific background I was able to see the flaws in the evolutionary theory \u00e2\u20ac\u201d life formed from non-living chemicals.<\/p>\n

“When you understand the process, you understand that it is impossible.”<\/p>\n

[Dr. Richard Pierce, a scientist at Mote Marine] is brilliant and articulate, but he understands that “amino acids” and “biological active protein, DNA-RNA encoded complex molecular structure” extrapolated to evolution remains beyond some of us.<\/p>\n

Information and prayer strengthened Pierce’s faith; teaching, he said, allowed him to gain a much deeper understanding of biochemistry. He voraciously read his Bible, but added that he was “still hung up on evolution.”<\/p>\n

“I prayed about it; God spoke to me,” Pierce said.<\/p>\n

“He said ‘Don’t worry about it. I did it. It doesn’t matter.’ That relieved me.”<\/p>\n

He said that he realized that “the evolution diversion causes people to stumble rather than succeed.”<\/p>\n

Scientific research supports “intelligent design far superior to human,” Pierce said. “The conflict is not between science and religion, rather between two world views \u00e2\u20ac\u201d naturalism and theism.”<\/p>\n

But the only politically correct approach, he continued, is neo-Darwinian evolution; “Thus God and intelligent design is not allowed in the equation.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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