Incredible Creatures That Defy Evolution
April/27/2008 Filed in: TV Shows
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Thoughts
I just finished watching this show that I thought
was going to be about evolution when it was
really about creationism. I knew it wasn't going
to be a science show when I realized it was on
TBN. The show is hosted by David Hames and Dr.
Jobe Martin.
Dr. Jobe Martin attempts to legitimize himself by saying he went to college for biology and was an agnostic and claims to have been an evolutionist. You can tell the direction the show is going by the way he discusses the Big Bang Theory. He discusses study he did against evolution that led him to believe in God but doesn't indicate how long ago it was.
He regularly says that things had to be created whole because they wouldn't work otherwise. He's talking about "irreducible complexity", and science had proven that something that doesn't appear to be able to work when any part is missing will in fact serve a purpose.
Interestingly he repeatedly says "scientists don't know" when it comes to how some things work, yet when he does have an answer it's a scientific one. Unless of course he doesn't have an answer and says "God did it".
At one point he discusses that they are teaching things in school about evolution that are not accurate. There is some truth to this, however, it has more to do with the school system reprinting books with information that has changed than the teachings themselves. It would be as if schools still taught with a school book that said the Berlin wall was still standing, it's not the Berlin wall's fault the school is using an out of date book.
Dr. Jobe Martin can't conceive that these animals evolved (natural selection) into what we see today over the period of millions of years given we have proof of just that. Yet he doesn't have any problem believing in an invisible God that he only knows about from the translated text of a two thousand year old book.
I might be a Brand New Atheist but I am not a moron. I can see right through his apologetics. If you want me to believe in what your saying show me some proof, I don't care how you feel. I would believe in God if there were any proof, as it stands right now, there is more proof for Bigfoot than God.
Dr. Jobe Martin attempts to legitimize himself by saying he went to college for biology and was an agnostic and claims to have been an evolutionist. You can tell the direction the show is going by the way he discusses the Big Bang Theory. He discusses study he did against evolution that led him to believe in God but doesn't indicate how long ago it was.
He regularly says that things had to be created whole because they wouldn't work otherwise. He's talking about "irreducible complexity", and science had proven that something that doesn't appear to be able to work when any part is missing will in fact serve a purpose.
Interestingly he repeatedly says "scientists don't know" when it comes to how some things work, yet when he does have an answer it's a scientific one. Unless of course he doesn't have an answer and says "God did it".
At one point he discusses that they are teaching things in school about evolution that are not accurate. There is some truth to this, however, it has more to do with the school system reprinting books with information that has changed than the teachings themselves. It would be as if schools still taught with a school book that said the Berlin wall was still standing, it's not the Berlin wall's fault the school is using an out of date book.
Dr. Jobe Martin can't conceive that these animals evolved (natural selection) into what we see today over the period of millions of years given we have proof of just that. Yet he doesn't have any problem believing in an invisible God that he only knows about from the translated text of a two thousand year old book.
I might be a Brand New Atheist but I am not a moron. I can see right through his apologetics. If you want me to believe in what your saying show me some proof, I don't care how you feel. I would believe in God if there were any proof, as it stands right now, there is more proof for Bigfoot than God.
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