I read this news, saying 25% of American believe both evolution & creationism. This news makes me think.
It seems to be an untold expectation for every Christian: if you believe in Bible, you must not believe in Evolution. The reason: Bible says very clearly all lives are created by God, but not evolved by themselves.
This seems to be a fair enough argument. As an engineer, I do see many faults in Evolution theory. One killer weakness: the theory can not be verified by experiment. So people can only derive the "fact", but can not 100% prove it. This does not up to the standard of any strict science.
On the other hand, I have a relatively rebel-thinking: it may be still a good idea to let people continue the study of Evolution, even though eventually it may be proved incorrect. Evolution is a study that helps so much in modern medical advance. It also helps to explain common relationship between animal and human, fulling people's curiosity. Even though its fundamental may be flawed, for engineering perspective, it works!
To be continued ...
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We also understand that many scientific theories are the best effort models for the real situation. The theory helps us understand the reality but it is not the reality.
Talk about modeling, it can tell you are an engineer. Who are you :) Yup, we use so many models to describe the world, they are all good as long as it works in some extends. And that's for practical purpose. My only concern is if the model could hurt the moral; for example, shaking people's faith. So, due to the same concern, it cut short to discuss on this topic.
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