You've gotta have faith...to be an atheist

Do let us know if they actually post your letter :slight_smile:

Nicely written letter Brian - phew - well done! Hope they publish it.

You can follow the quite heavy debate that the article by Rogers elicited at the following links: for creation:
http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=234004959583&topic=15180
for evolution: http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=234004959583&topic=15180#!/topic.php?uid=234004959583&topic=15179
Views that were published do not seem to be included on the FB site.

You know, reading through those pro-creation (pun very much intended) responses brings home once again the stunning breadth of the religionists’ delusions. It’s not enough that they put forward the bankrupt antiscientific “alternatives” that they do. There’s the blind presumption that their opinions are somehow at least equal to the consensus of experts in the field that they wish to attack. The jaw-dropping conceit is that anyone with an Internet connection who spends ten minutes with Google can offset years and decades of dedicated study by such experts. The fraction of experts in the biological sciences who reject evolution is very tiny but that doesn’t stop Joe and Jane Soap from putting their arrogant ignorance on public display. Michael Meadon wrote well and thoroughly on this topic not too long ago.

'Luthon64

Excellent article by MM, Thanx Mefiante…

Roger’s has responded to some heavyweights’ criticism of his original article in The Mercury.See http://www.facebook.com/notes.php?id=234004959583&notes_tab=app_2347471856#!/note.php?note_id=464276548207

sorry and here are the 4 PhD’s Rogers’ is referring to’s, article: http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=464267073207

Thanks for the update and the links, Brian. Most of Rogers’ reply again erroneously conflates abiogenesis with evolution. The rest of it is a sidetracking accusation that the four UKZN biologists don’t know anything about chemistry – or their own subject. As for evolution not being falsifiable, that’s utter baloney: All Rogers needs to do is show us mammalian fossils interspersed among trilobites in an undisturbed geological stratum or sequence.

'Luthon64

Very interesting - thanks. Much to ponder there. I’ll still be shouting my ignorant mouth off though. :wink:

Wow, what a great piece. It’s wonderful when you’ve been thinking about something you feel strongly about, but don’t know how to express articulately, and then you find that someone has done it for you, and with such style.