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benhilton, you’re right. My link doesn’t mention the bible, which is why I posted it. It’s factual. On the other hand, contrary to your presenter’s claim, the biblical creation myth is not factual, eg according to Genesis night, day, and plants were created before the sun existed. Clever!
I watched the whole of the clearly carefully worded presentation suspecting minutes in some sort of religious agenda, before, lo and behold, discovering right at the end it’s the handiwork of the Christadelphians – and hence, unsurprisingly, rather than offering some solid evidence for the authenticity of the biblical creation myth, it concentrates on disingenuously disparaging science – before concluding, quite bizarrely, that the bible and science agree! (Oddly enough, Koranic scholars make similar efforts to convince the world that their book and science agree - but they, like your chaps, also fail miserably).
The presenter claims that science disappoints not only in its theory of evolution, but charges it with failure, through lack of facts, to have found a cure in the past for cholera, causing many to die. However, he neglects to consider that, if he believes his God to be the creator of the universe, it follows that his God also created disease, leaving man to work unceasingly to discover cures for the omnipotent one’s most abominable invention. In the light of that, I hardly think man can be held wholly responsible for causing people to die of disease.
One claim did intrigue me. The presenter said that the oldest objects found are only a few thousand years old. I’ve no idea what he considers to be ‘objects’ and he didn’t elaborate, but since I am aware of evidence from much earlier periods of man’s presence upon the earth, I am at a loss to understand what he’s talking about. Any ideas?
You’re right again in saying that no one has all the answers, but it’s simply irrational to positively attribute the unknown to what, in the complete absence of evidence, can only be described as an imaginary supernatural entity, as your presenter does. Personally I think Douglas’ Vogons are more likely to have had a hand in the creation of the earth, and the life that exists upon it. It’s certainly more feasible – but that’s another story.