How do people stomach this stuff? Bill Dembski was on the Bible Answer Man broadcast, so I tried to listen — the host goes on and on about his dogma, and it makes no sense. "Here's what the Bible says, it's true, therefore you have to believe." And then he introduces Dembski as someone who uses science to justify Christian superstition in a "biblically satisfying" way.
Then Delusional Dembski gets on, and the first thing he does is claim the evidence for design in nature has been getting stronger and stronger…and he claims that the reason scientists haven't been embracing it is the problem of evil. No, wrong, it's because there is no evidence for design. He cites things like the rabies virus that seems to be designed to destroy human nervous systems, and fire ants, and parasitic wasps, and that these are problems for Darwinists (?) and that this natural evil has to be explained. His explanation: the Fall. But wait, he also admits to being an Old Earth Creationist; if natural evil was present long before Adam and Eve, how can the Fall be an explanation?
Easy. The effects of the Fall work backward through time. God created a world containing evil in anticipation of Eve chomping on an apple.
That was enough. I stopped right there. I'm not a psychiatrist, so listening in to two lunatics babbling at each other isn't particularly interesting.
Wait…let's add a third lunatic. Ken Ham was outraged at Dembski's "outlandish statements" and is very peeved at the Bible Answer Man. They're heretics! He doesn't find them outlandish because they're babbling pseudoscience, it's because they don't immediately reject this old earth stuff to accept Ham's literal interpretation of the Bible. Ham is upset because Dembski is undermining the authority of the Word of God.
I say put 'em in a cage match and let them tear each other apart.
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