[...] You think you've been taught things that aren't quite right. This whole thing about molecules in a puddle, or in a pond -- lightning strikes molecules, some of those molecules form into slithering creatures, and they come out of this pond. That's the primordial soup model that's a bunch of nonsense.
Some significant editing of a few billion years -- of life being stuck at a primitive microscopic, unicellular level. Before the Ediacaran Period came along (sans slithering onto or setting roots in land yet).
So welcome [...] a Christian Ministry here that likes to tackle the big questions of life. Why are we here, does God exist, is the Bible true? And so we enjoy having conversations, having lectures, bringing subject matter experts like Dr James Stewart here. Normally we talk about philosophical historical scientific Arguments for belief in the Christian faith, but that's not one of those talks tonight. Some of y'all might think that this is about creationism, evolution. No, there is not going to be any God talk here tonight. Rather, we are having Dr Tour talk about the state of the research on the origin of life abiogenesis. So if you aren't a Christian, here we welcome you and we always welcome you, to come to any of our weekly meetings...
Still boils down to mainstream science being restricted to methodological naturalism, if not the philosophical version or physicalism that most scientists [putatively] embrace personally or individually. So the only choice they have is an abiogenesis route -- no metaphysical explanations, or intervention from "outside the natural realm" influences allowed. No glitch in the matrix.
Even panspermia [of interstellar range] would simply relocate a natural origin elsewhere in the cosmos, as if there could pretentiously be a luckier place than Earth, early Mars, and this solar system in general as a collective candidate. (Oh, all those exoplanet, total "water worlds" being foamed at the mouth about -- blah, blah.)
But on the other hand, Woke is battering down the door to where the a priori guidelines of science may eventually be thrown out the door as structurally racist, patriarchal, oppressive, capitalist, or just pervasively
WEIRD -- Europe's cultural tyranny.
Which is to say, the same scientists who have traditionally and still do fight tooth, nail, and claw to keep Abrahamic religious beliefs out of their domain... Will conflictingly and generously bend over to allow indigenous creationism and other non-Western thought orientations to plow them a new GI tract.
Even the few remaining administrators and researchers that haven't had their brains ideologically colonized by Leftangelicalism, nevertheless don't have a clue how to fight it once one of the pod people points a finger at them and starts hissing "racist, sexist, LGBTQ-phobe, etc". Metaphor-wise, they're promptly seized by the hive-mind sentries and carted off to either rehabilitation camp or turned into career-less vagabonds roaming the streets.
So although Christian missionaries are retrospectively regarded as one of the abusive tools or henchmen that European imperialism used as a vanguard for its exploitations, some offshoot or legacy of that theistic stripe will surely get its turn to include a chapter in the textbooks of tomorrow. Woke's newly torn orifice in the science establishment can't do anything but get larger and more inclusive as the years roll by.
Oct 6, 2022 02:03 PM
