CAMBRIDGE
PLANS DARWIN FESTIVAL as the University is planning
a week-long celebration of Charles Darwin's work from 5th to
10th Jul 2009 and will involve "some of the world's most
eminent geneticists, biologists and sociologists." Darwin
commenced studies at Cambridge in 1827 and gained an M. A. in
Theology. Although he did not formally study biology he became
interested in natural history and collected beetles. John Stevens
Henslow, the university's professor of botany and director of
the Botanic Garden became a friend and mentor to Darwin, and
later recommended Darwin for the post of "gentleman naturalist"
on the HMS Beagle. The article explains the importance of evolution
to the modern world in these terms: "There is virtually
nothing in our modern world that has
not been affected in some way by Darwin's discoveries. His theory
of evolution is at the heart of biology lessons in our schools,
and contemporary medicine in our hospitals. It surfaces in hot
topics like bird 'flu and MRSA, and it has had a profound impact
on the work of historians, theologians, sociologists, artists
and novelists." Reported in the Cambridge Evening News,
15 July 2008.
ED. COM. Whilst Darwin's theory may have had a profound impact
on historians, theologians, sociologists, artists and novelists,
it has done nothing to contribute to biology. Darwin's explanation
for the origin of living things was "natural selection".
To select something is to choose it from already existing living
things, not bring them into existence. Selection, whether natural
or unnatural, does not explain the origin of anything. Neither
is the theory any use for modern medicine. Explaining the spread
of bird flu or development of antibiotic resistance in MRSA
(a bacterium) does not need a theory that says microbes turned
into people, when all that is happening is that viruses and
bacteria give rise to varieties of the same viruses and bacteria.
It is because of such events that Creation Research in combination
with AiG UK is working on a DVD that will explain and expose
what Darwin's theory really says and how the evidence really
supports the Creator God and neither Darwin nor Dawkins nor
their followers. (Ref. education, evolution, history)
SUPPORT THIS DVD PROJECT CLICK HERE
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