Poor Denyse O’Leary! She gets no respect from evolutionists. And, we don’t see why she should get any respect from creationists either. As more of O’Leary’s opinion piece reveals, she’s certainly swallowed large amounts of evolutionary speculation when it comes to the origin of life and species. But like many of her fellow theistic evolutionists and progressive creation comrades, this doesn’t seem to bother her at all.
*SIGH* Perhaps O’Leary should just be quiet and stop talking about things she knows nothing about.
Theory needs a paramedic, not more cheerleaders
by Denyse O’Leary
Calgary Herald (Canada), August 16, 2008
p. A26
Re: “What is it about evolution theory that Albertans don’t get?” Rob Breakenridge, Opinion, Aug. 12.
Rob Breakenridge has cobbled together key talking points of the American Darwin lobby. The resulting column is an excellent illustration of why one should not write about big topics without basic research.
The 2005 Judge Jones decision in Pennsylvania, to which Breakenridge devotes much of his column, has not crimped the worldwide growth of interest in intelligent design. That is no surprise. A judge is not a scientist, and Jones cannot plug gaping holes in Darwin’s theory of evolution. Evolution is — contrary to its (largely) publicly funded zealots — in deep trouble, for a number of reasons.
The history of life has not been the long, slow “survival of the fittest” transition that classical evolution theory requires. Life got started on Earth soon after the planet cooled. All the basic divisions of animal life took shape rather suddenly in the Cambrian seas, about 550 million years ago. Later, there was, for example, the Big Bang of flowers and the Big Bang of birds, where many life forms appeared quite suddenly. Modern human consciousness is one of these leaps, judging from the superb cave paintings from recent millenniums. The creationists whom Breakenridge derides may be wrong on their dates, but not on much else.
