Early Morning Television

I was up quite early this morning and decided to turn on the TV and channel surf for a bit.  I got to the Trinity Broadcasting Network, which was airing a show called "Creation in the 21st Century".  I caught the tail end of this show, and it made my brain hurt.  To me it demonstrated once again how the Theory of Evolution is mischaracterized by some outspoken Christians under the guise of "defending Scripture".

(An aside: If you didn't already know this, I don't see a need to "defend" Scripture.  In my way of thinking, the Bible is indefensible solely because of the sheer passage of time.  We are two millennia removed from its final letter, and we live in a much different world today.  It wasn't written to give us an inside pseudo-secret knowledge to start or engage in arguments with people.  This approach is what plagues the Western Church and is leading to its demise.  The Bible was written and compiled to engender trust in Jesus the Christ.  People either trust or they don't.  I preach and proclaim the Gospel and leave it at that, and I teach and encourage others to do the same.)

If we Christians want to join in the "Creation vs. Evolution" debacle, fine!  But if we're going to build a case against Evolution,  let's make sure it's really Evolution, and not a caricature, that we're building a case against.

So, here's what the dude on the program said, "You were either created in an explosion, and no explosion in a printshop ever produced a Webster's Dictionary..."

Right, TV guy!  And it never will!!  Evolutionists are not saying that we were "created in an explosion".  What they are saying is that the atoms of elements (except hydrogen), which we find in the earth and in all sentient life, were forged in the core of a star (from carbon up to iron).  The star exploded (called a "supernova") and heavier elements were forged (such as gold and silver).  None of them are saying that there was a Big Bang and then, poof, all of sudden there were people.

Mathematical Cosmologist Brian Swimme puts what evolutionary scientists are saying like this, "Take a big ball of hydrogen gas, leave it alone for a few billion years, and you get rose bushes, giraffes, and human beings."  The printshop analogy from the TV guy turns out to be a misrepresentational parody of what evolutionary theory actually says.

If we're ever going to get anywhere in these discussions, we are going to have to stop with the parodies and false analogies.

Furthermore, the picture that was placed on the screen when the guy was talking about the "explosion" was something similar to this:

That is not an explosion.  That is a galaxy.  Here's an explosion:

Let's at least get our pictures straight, shall we??