Misquoting and murdering established scientific theories and facts ought to be worse than the devil quoting the Bible. I have no idea what virtue there is in spreading misinformation about the scientific theory of evolution in order to give vent to one's own misguided notion of conformity between ancient religious myths and modern science, or to one's penchant for metaphorical and magical thinking in situations where it is clearly inappropriate. While it does great disservice to both religion and science, I for one am especially distressed by what it does to the latter. The article below is a travesty from the standpoint of promoting scientific literacy. It is chock full of factual errors about biological evolution. I will leave alone the obvious intellectual dishonesty of cherry picking a few words and phrases here and there, while ignoring reams of inconsistent absurdities, and abusing the poetic license in the process. Instead, let me just simply correct all the blatant errors in scientific understanding one by one:
1. If one applies the logic used in the article consistently rather than situationally then one has to recognize that most evolutionary co-descendants of the serpents have had and continue to have legs. The ancestors of the serpents also had legs. 2. In the theory of evolution there is no such thing as higher or lower form of life. This should be evident to anybody who knows that the cockroach and the bacterium are the most successful life forms on planet Earth. 3. Life evolved in water or wet clay as unicellular organisms, not as fish. 4. Turtle is a reptile, not an amphibian. 5. There is no simple sequential relationship between evolution of herbivores and carnivores. Many carnivores evolved before herbivores. If we are talking of mammals carnivores and herbivores evolved at the same time. 6. The pig is an omnivore, not herbivore. It is a domesticated animal, and it evolved much after the lion. The lion evolved around 750,000 years ago. The pig was domesticated from an ancient wild boar type species about 10,000 years ago. The wild boar is also an omnivore. BTW, Narsimha is half lion and half man. There never was such a species on planet Earth. 7. Many earliest human species were taller than most modern humans. For example, Homo antecessor and Homo erectus males were 6 feet tall. 8. There is no sequential progression from men of war to men of peace in early human evolution. Peaceful and warrior tribes coexisted at the same time, and continue to do so even today. 9. The process of evolution in the Darwinian theory is not a directional or progressive process. It is not a purpose-driven teleological process. Nothing in it says that a new species better than us according to some arbitrary standard will emerge in the future. As stated above, cockroaches and bacteria are doing better than any other type of organism. The only thing that has increased over the course of evolution is diversity. The theory also does not say that one god is better or more evolved than many gods, or no god is better than one god. There are hunter gatherer tribes that do not believe in god, and cargo cults that believe in one god. Cheers, Santosh ----- Original Message ----- > From: radharao gracias <[email protected]> > To: Goanet Goanet <[email protected]> > Cc: > Sent: Friday, August 24, 2012 11:43 AM > Subject: [Goanet] Evolution > > *EVOLUTION* > > By: Radharao F.Gracias > > * * > > The concept of evolution, has existed from the beginning. However, whether > man was created or has evolved, has been a matter of dispute. The first and > second chapters of the Book of Genesis, are often cited in support of > creationism. In doing so, the import of chapter three, is overlooked. >
