by Robert Burk

Created on: June 09, 2009   Last Updated: June 16, 2009

One of the basic problems with the human race and its 'thinkers' in particular is what is called a confirmation bias. People put far more weight on information that supports their idea than they do on information that suggests they could be wrong. When I was more of a young man that I am today one of the perplexing things I came across is that it was possible to buy two books by two different authors; each top researcher in a prestigious university, each with their cadre of supporters who wrote on the very same subject yet came to two quite different conclusions using completely different sets of data. To read them you would think the other along with their supporters and supporting information existed in a different dimension. The same goes for evolutionists specifically but materialists in general and Christians. Very few researchers on either side of the divide can tolerate the presence of either, yet along open any of their blasphemous literature and I am talking about both parties here.

What few materialists accept is that their position is based on a huge leap of faith, likewise Christians are nervous about admitting to how much of their belief actually rests on science. The point is nothing in this world can be proven. Some facts are more probable than others but there is always room for doubt this is why we have contending theories about absolutely everything.

At the same time there is nothing that is absolutely based on faith. The Big Bang contradicts just about every scientific law that has ever been formulated, but it is a proposition that leads to some fruitful discoveries. That God exists is a similarly fanciful notion but it also leads to some pretty interesting discoveries. I have a certain advantage in that I spent the first fifty years ridiculing Christians and the church and the last fifteen years or so concluding every word in the Bible is true.

The problem we have with evolution is that from a Christian perspective it conflicts with Scripture. But scientifically inclined Christians have little to offer in place of the Theory of Evolution from a scientific perspective. One cannot imagine Intelligent Design offering many chairs in universities to researchers. Extinct forms lose all relevance in Intelligent Design they become just another dead life form.

Materialism in its strict adherence to things that can be weighed and measured puts a huge burden on itself. It is not that things cannot be explained in some other way.

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