“Oh it rained on de rocks an’ de rocks come alive, doo-dah, doo-dah…”
Evolution groupies were turning somersaults of joy a few years ago when somebody found [trumpet fanfare] fossil bacteria! And holy cow, they’re 4.2 zillion (billion?) years old!
From there they jumped to life on Mars, once upon a time. As in “probably.”
Well, we can’t help it, I guess. Can’t help being curious about the world around us. Can’t help trying to explain it. Someday a lot of the explanations we’ve come up with today will provoke pity and amusement from tomorrow’s scientists.
Meanwhile, some of them need to get out more.
Some of this nonsense is already being laughed at by the real scientists, but some choose to hang on to their nonsense no matter what. I feel sorry to see how much precious time they waste.
I never understood of all people, true scientists would be believers in God. No way does accidents explain amoeba to Pascal.
A lot of this “science” strikes me as fanciful stories. Experimental Science relies upon observation of repeatable experiments, under controlled conditions. When observing the past, this can’t be done, so it becomes highly speculative, and in some cases, it strikes me as yarn spinning, but the yarn always pays homage to whatever evolutionary theory is fashionable, at the moment.
More and more, our “education” makes us stupid.
I used to watch some of these “Science” programs on TV, such as Discovery Channel programming, but I’ve noticed that over the years, these presentations have come to resemble a story you would read to a child, with elaborate narratives about the details of how ancient creatures lived,
It is, of course, quite possible to determine a lot of information about a creature, from fossil evidence. For example, teeth are indicative of diet and tell us a lot about the animal, but many of these presentations are highly speculative, but presented as solid fact. A lifetime of experience makes me a bit harder to convince, but imagine the effect of watching one of these programs, on the mind of a child.
The Flintstones was obviously fantasy, with cleverly drawn caricatures of fictional characters adding to the charm, but with CGI (Computer Generated Images), it would be possible to tell just as fantastic of a story and have it look lifelike. Misused, such a presentation could be quite misleading to anyone, but especially to a child.