God's Cool Designs

Mostly unbeknownst to us Europeans a controversy over evolution has erupted in the beautiful land of unlimited possibilities, the US. Some people believe that since God supposably created everything, evolution must be wrong and some go as far as calling science evil. The so-called creationists' arguments are terribly flawed, illogical and most of the time downright dumb.

One term that one comes across over and over and over is 'Darwinism' which is strictly speaking more a philosophical concept than a biological one. Such a misnomer might be only a minor problem, but it has probably been chosen deliberately to remind people of Social Darwinism, the notion that some humans are superior to others and therefore allowed or even entitled to eridicate any inferior ones. Obviously, Social Darwinism is negatively connotated and the creationists might hope this negative meaning will 'rub off' on evolution.

Another major problem is that most creationists are not equipped with a proper biological or even any scientific background and/or show unbelievable short-comings in the fields they are trying to dispute or promote. Some of the creationists' 'scientific' arguments are so blatantly and obviously wrong that it is hard to know whether these people are actually or just willingly ignorant. Creationists often state the unfalsafiability of God must be compelling evidence that God exists. It is not hard to show that this argument is flawed in the scientific sense as in science and the scientific community anything that is not (yet) proven to exist must be assumed to not exist.

More next Sunday; now enjoy Edward Current's beautifully satirical video.