well writing the booklet on evolution has been a pleasure
it's a subjects fascinating for a long time just really fascinating and I grew
up totally steeped in evolution I was a huge Carl Sagan was like a saint you
know in the traditionals you know sense of the word I he just made science
almost really seem like a religion you wanted to be a part of so I grew up
steeped in evolutionary thought that's just the way it was that it really was a
fact it was actually material scientifically questioning evolution as
a possibility that started to open my mind really more than then religiously I
look forward to writing this booklet because it's frustrating I'm a fan of
science I love science I love following and I love the idea of of cracking open
the world and seeing how it works I think there's so much to learn but it
does frustrate me when theories even a theory that I would grant is as elegant
as Charles Darwin's I don't agree with the theory and it's I think we'll we try
to express the booklet that it's it's completely fallacious to say that it's a
fact there's been proven beyond any kind of reasonable doubt
but it's an elegant theory you know the idea that just random change which we
know happens from parents to individuals or my children gratefully don't look
exactly like I do you have these random changes and the idea that just the
struggle to survive would be enough to sift amongst those and over time create
brand-new life forms when when Darwin ends his book talking about there being
kind of a grandeur to life you know with that view I'm sympathetic to that I saw
I don't count myself as someone who's just inherently the hemily passionately
antagonistic on principles sake at the same time let's not pretend that that
theory doesn't have consequences in the world
you've got William Provine and major promoters of evolution who are very
explicit about the consequences of that theory that there really is no
fundamental basis for morality there really is no fundamental basis for
really anything kind of transcendent to life when you are in a sense and
advanced aid that sometimes is it's in quite right but when you are essentially
and even advanced well what does that actually mean but when you are really
just among the animals you know a lion kills a zebra it's not murdering the
zebra it's just hungry right but if I kill my neighbor Bob even if I was
hungry doesn't count you know it's still murder is all that out the window or not
evolution has consequences and I do feel we're seeing it in our world we're
seeing a world that that is beginning more and more to live by the law of
tooth and claw a world that's red and tooth and claw like Tennyson said no but
that said those are the consequences that doesn't make it false they're even
Richard Dawkins said look we may not like something we do not like the
consequences but that doesn't change whether or not it's true but on the
other side I want to dress the other fallacies because on the religious side
of things there are just as many fallacies and I tried to attack them
from both perspectives for evolution they claim that the findings of science
establish their ideas well that's fine so let's take a look at the findings of
science but on the religious side really if you imagine as a spectrum there's
complete atheistic mechanistic naturalistic processes there's somehow
formed all of life and on the other side there are those who believe passionately
that the Bible says the world is only 6,000 years old that everything we see
around us the light from every star and every galaxy and every piece of matter
around us all of life was created 6,000 years ago and there's people who want to
believe the Bible is true but not only do they hear that this side is a proven
fact it doesn't seem to match the Bible but these statements that seem to be
biblical or at least are claimed to be so don't match the world they see around
them they and they're they're trying to be honest with the facts they look at
the Grand Canyon they'll listen to young earth creation explanation about the
Grand Canyon and find that boy I wish I could believe
that but it just doesn't match what I see and does the Bible actually say
those things because if it doesn't then you're really discrediting the Bible as
well and so what you see that on both sides of this argument these very
extreme positions and both of them are ignoring incredibly relevant facts and
so the booklet the purpose of the booklet was to address all that and try
to find a path that is a that is true and it reflects the facts better
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