The Atheist Is Cheating Whenever He Makes

The Positive Evidence For Darwinism Is Confined To Small-scale Evolutionary Changes Like Insects Developing Insecticide Resistance....evidence Like That For Insecticide Resistance Confirms The Darwinian Selection Mechanism For Small-scale Changes, But Hardly Warrants The Grand Extrapolation That Darwinists Want. It Is A Huge Leap Going From Insects Developing Insecticide Resistance Via The Darwinian Mechanism Of Natural Selection And Random Variation To The Very Emergence Of Insects In The First Place By That Same Mechanism.

Constrained Optimization Is The Art Of Compromise Between Conflicting Objectives. This Is What Design Is All About. To Find Fault With Biological Design - As Stephen Jay Gould Regularly Does - Because It Misses Some Idealized Optimum Is Therefore Gratuitous. Not Knowing The Objectives Of The Designer, Gould Is In No Position To Say Whether The Designer Has Proposed A Faulty Compromise Among Those Objectives.

The Young Earth-solution To Reconciling The Order Of Creation With Natural History Makes Good Exegetical And Theological Sense. Indeed, The Overwhelming Consensus Of Theologians Up Through The Reformation Held To This View. I Myself Would Adopt It In A Heartbeat Except That Nature Seems To Present Such Strong Evidence Against It.

Thus, In A Crucial Way, The Kansas Hearings Repeat The Pattern Set By The Scopes Trial, Which Has Been Repeated Many Times Since, Namely, Evolutionists Escaped Critical Scrutiny By Not Having To Undergo Cross-examination. In This Case, They Accomplished The Feat By Boycotting The Hearings. I Therefore Await The Day When The Hearings Are Not Voluntary But Involve Subpoenas That Compel Evolutionists To Be Deposed And Interrogated At Length On Their Views.

As A Biblical Inerrantist, I Believe That What The Bible Teaches Is True And Bow To The Text, Including Its Teaching About The Flood And Its Universality.