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Date/Time 26 Dec 2014 5:35:46am
IB, if you were talking solely about operational science I would tend to agree, although even this is tentative. But the science used by atheists to attack Christianity falls into the historical category, that is it all happened in the past so was not observed, as in the true scientific method, so assumptions and world view play heavily with one's interpretation of evidence.

Further I think you would agree that evolution is probably one of the biggest issues that atheists use in trying to discredit biblical Christianity, and I would confidently say that it has in fact been falsified by the evidence. The modern study of genetics, particularly population genetics, show that not only are humans not evolving now but that the mutational load is accumulating in our genome to the point of extinction in a few thousand years time. I'm no expert so check out Dr Sanford's book 'The mystery of the Genome' if you don't believe me. Also evolution has utterly failed to predict the fossil record. Darwin predicted many transitional forms to be found but in over 150 years of searching this has not eventuated, a few debatable examples at most.

Of course due to the religious nature of atheism and the fact that evolution is a central pillar of this philosophy, scientists simply change and mould the theory to accommodate all the conflicting information. This clearly shows that evolution is not real operational science in the same category as gravity etc.

Lastly on what basis do you claim that 'do unto others' is good but the concept of sin is bad? If you have no moral arbiter above all men then this is simply your opinion, and you have no basis to claim this as being true. I, on the other hand, believe in the God of the bible who is the moral arbiter above all men so on His authority I can say you a wrong and I am right. Of course I am a sinner like all people so am not claiming to be perfect, only forgiven.