Another creationist video found its way into my YouTube feed. Professional-looking gentlemen having a professional-sounding discussion about the absurdity of evolution.
Darwin said this, and Darwin said that. Darwin believed this, and good old Darwin didn’t know that. And how wrong he was! And today’s Darwinists still cling on to this dying theory. How ridiculous is that!
The discussion is drenched with scientific-sounding words. There’re plasmids, endoplasm, centromere, codons, recessive allele, messenger RNA, genetic entropy, ….. These guys know their stuff! The viewer, not burdened with a lot of scientific knowledge, is impressed. It is easy to see where this discourse is heading to: Darwinism is dead, and today’s Darwinists are only flogging a dead horse because they can’t see, or don’t want to see the TRUTH. Darwin’s been dead for such a long time, for goodness’ sake, let’s move on!
Indeed, Charles Darwin published his main idea 166 years ago. That’s a very long time on the scientific timeline. He had no clue about any mechanisms which could explain his theory.
Let’s assume we can bring him back to life into the year 2025. Let’s give him a Biology 101 textbook to read. He would not have the foggiest idea what these guys are talking about. He recognizes a cell, and he understands the meaning of inheritance, but what is a ‘DNA copy error’? What the heck is DNA? And what on earth is a recessive allele??
In the end, he would look up and say, “I was right after all, all living things are related to one another.”
Let’s go back further in history. The year is 1633. Galileo has been hauled before the Chief Inquisitor. He has two choices: renouncing his crazy idea that the earth is moving or face the torture chamber. Galileo was 69 at the time (in itself an achievement in the 17th century), and he had no desire fighting it out with the Inquisition. So, he just lied under oath.
We’ll bring him back to life and bring him up to speed with 21st century astronomy. He would have no clue on what’s going on around him. What is a galaxy? What the hell is a Black Hole. Who is this Isaac Newton fella who thinks he knows more about gravity than me?
In the end he would say, “Well, after all, I was right, the earth is moving!”
Shall we call ourselves ‘Galileonists’, to distinguish ourselves from Flat Earthers and other Geocentrists? ‘Galileans’ doesn’t cut it, that term is already reserved for Jupiter’s largest moons. What about ‘Kopernicans’, or ‘Copernicans’? No, that sounds too ancient, even with the latinising capital ‘C’.
What do you think?
