Dr. Michael Shermer is the Founding Publisher of Skeptic magazine, the Executive Director of the Skeptics Society, a monthly columnist for Scientific American, the host of the Skeptics Distinguished Science Lecture Series at Caltech, and Adjunct Professor of Economics at Claremont Graduate University.
Dr. Georgia Purdom has a Ph. D. in molecular genetics from Ohio State University. She is employed full-time as a "researcher" and speaker by Answers in Genesis ("AiG"). AiG operates the Creation Museum in Petersburg, Kentucky.
This is a video of Drs. Shermer and Purdom speaking at the Museum:
What is truly scary is the fact that AiG is well financed. Just imagine the suffering in the third world that could be alleviated by redirecting the millions they are spending in a futile effort to add scientific credence to their delusions.
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I can see you view is extremely pro-evolution.
ReplyDeleteYou seem to mock the "researcher". Dr. Purdom is refreshing in an acdemic system obsessed with evolution.
We need dialogue and logical intelligent debate. I look forward to her work and hope for constructive and intelligent works.
One critism I have for both sides is that we both start with undefendable assumptions.
Dr. Purdom tries to use science to defend her supernatural beliefs in one breath while saying "there's no point in doing that because the bible has the answer" in the next.
ReplyDeleteThis is not refreshing. It's tired, old, and about as respectable as explaining hurricanes as due to Poseidon's rage.
Mao, Dr. Purdom mocks herself by opening her mouth.
ReplyDeleteI agree that we need intelligent debate. Let me know when Dr. Purdom publishes an article in a peer-reviewed journal.
You are going to be waiting an awfully long time for Purdom to publish anything that is peer reviewed. You would be better off waiting for godot.
ReplyDeleteMao, I've seen Sarfati expound more on how evolutionists 'start from undefendable assumptions':
ReplyDeleteFacts do not speak for themselves—they must be interpreted according to a framework. It is not a case of religion/creation/subjectivity vs. science/evolution/objectivity. Rather, it is the biases of the religions of Christianity and of humanism interpreting the same facts in diametrically opposite ways.
The framework behind the evolutionists’ interpretation is naturalism—things made themselves; no divine intervention has happened; and God, if He even exists, has not revealed to us knowledge about the past.
This is "Biblical glasses"-grade horsepuckey. Evolutionary Theory works. We "believe" in it because it comes up with the right answers. With knowledge of comparative anatomy and geology, we can predict where to find fossils. We can predict concordances of anatomy, biochemistry and genes, knowing even only the details of one of them.
Creationist apologetics is chock full of "could have"s (like God could have shifted the dipole from zero on the sphere of water which was earth, and he could have transmuted the elements in such and such a fashion) without any means of sorting fact from fiction.
That makes creationism not work.
This isn't even a matter of "both of us are bad, so can't we just get equal time?"