User:JDstats
I believe that science is a great way to understand how God did what he did. While science starts with premise that nothing supernatural can be considered in the explanation, it is clear from nature that the universe is wonderfully created. The beauty, complexity, and order of the universe is awe-inspiring and truly shows God's greatness. Pure science does not deny God, many scientists, however, do. I had previously been a theist evolutionist, but God has shown me that this belief was in error.
As a Statistician, my department was approached by a paleotologist for help in creating a statistical process for placing skulls into taxonomic groups. He wanted to use cluster analysis for this placement. As I know that cluster analysis can not be used as proof that something belongs in a certain group (it cannot even be used as proof that groups exist in the first place). I asked him what had been used previously. The answer that educated guesses had been used previously, was disturbing. Thus began my quest to understand evolution. What I found in this quest was even more alarming.
As a child, I was taught that: 1.)evolution had been proven true and demonstrated in the fossil record, 2.) abiogenesis via the primordial soup had been demonstrated in physical experiments, 3.) vestigial organs prove evolution is true, 4.) embryology proves evolution true, 5.) all the steps from monkey to man have been found in the fossil record. I have found that all 5 are entirely inaccurate (I can provide the evidence that this is true if you want to know). This does not necessarily prove evolution is false, but in no other field of science, have I found that what I learned in school was untrue, and further that scientists knew prior to me being taught these "facts", that they were untrue. This is truly appauling.
I have no religious axe to grind. I am a christian, and was a christian when I believed evolution to be true. It made sense to me that God would use some method to make man, and if that method was evolution, than this did not affect my ability to believe in God. My rejection of abiogenesis and evolution are based solely off of the lack of scientific evidence. I do find, however, that understanding the true science involved makes it much easier to understand the Bible. The accounts in the Bible are historically accurate and probably historically accurate to even a literal translation. This tends to show how good God is. He not only provided the whys of life (something science cannot even begin to do) he also provided the hows in ways that science may some day be able to discover.
