Quote:This is the interesting point about the purely secular view of origin. 

 

1.) As I said before, the antithesis of creation is not evolution.  At not time does anyone assert that the concept of creation or intelligent design is predicated on allele frequencies or dominant traits within a population of organisms will remain static over time. The antithesis of creation would be abiogenesis, a non living organism coming from a non living organisms.  Incidentally, there is a scientific law of BIOGENESIS meaning that it is currently held that all living things originated from other living things.  No one talks about abiogenesis as the backbone of their view of origin because the absence of any proof in the history of the modern scientific record is kind of inconvenient for discussions like this.  I say modern because it wasn't that long ago that science believed that the rats spontaneously generated from the cheese in the corner. 

 

2.) I don't understand how advocates of big bang theory can be so closed minded to the possibility of a force greater than the known natural laws.  As a matter of fact its pretty contradictory.  When you espouse the idea that the universe has a beginning date, be it 14 thousand years or fourteen trillion years, it then begs the question how did it start and where did it come from.  The current understanding of physics and mathematics does not account for the spontaneous generation of matter.  Also, and just as importantly, you're talking about the mass of the entire universe occupying a single point in space and then springing forth, almost like some greater force just woke up one day and said let there be light. 

 

I have no problem with either evolution, abiogenesis, or the big bang theory being taught in the classroom.  The problem is that the theories aren't taught in the classroom.  If you ask most people who advocate a purely secular view of the origin of the universe put down their smart phone and to tell you the difference between the theory of abiogenesis and the theory of evolution they look at you with a blank stare.  If you then ask that person to give you five credible instances of speciation level changes observed in nature they start calling you a flat earther as they walk off.