1. Rebuttal:
Argument from Natural Selection
Argument from Natural Selection
Summary:
Natural Selection, not God, created the lifeforms on this planet. Species that can adapt survive to self-replicate, while species that cannot adapt before reproducing die off and no longer exist.
Phillip E. Johnson, UC Berkley law professor, 1940-2019
“Third, Emilio has to learn that ‘science’ as defined in our culture has a philosophical bias that needs to be exposed. On the one hand, science is empirical. This means that scientists rely on experiments, observations and calculations to develop theories and test them. On the other hand, contemporary science is naturalistic and materialistic in philosophy. What this means is that materialist explanations for all phenomena are assumed to exist. And what that means is that the NABT’s [National Association of Biology Teachers] definition of evolution as an unsupervised process is simply true by definition–regardless of the evidence! It is a waste of time to argue about the evidence if one side has already won the argument by defining the terms.”
— Phillip E. Johnson, Defeating Darwinism by Opening Minds, IVP Books, 1997 p21
“Third, Emilio has to learn that ‘science’ as defined in our culture has a philosophical bias that needs to be exposed. On the one hand, science is empirical. This means that scientists rely on experiments, observations and calculations to develop theories and test them. On the other hand, contemporary science is naturalistic and materialistic in philosophy. What this means is that materialist explanations for all phenomena are assumed to exist. And what that means is that the NABT’s [National Association of Biology Teachers] definition of evolution as an unsupervised process is simply true by definition–regardless of the evidence! It is a waste of time to argue about the evidence if one side has already won the argument by defining the terms.”
— Phillip E. Johnson, Defeating Darwinism by Opening Minds, IVP Books, 1997 p21