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Isaac Newton who is widely recognized as one of the most influential scientists of all time is quoted as saying "In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.
You totally missed my point. And you are turning a blind eye to the facts. I suggest you read the book Undeniable by the distinguished engineer-turned-molecular-biologist Douglas Axe. His experimental work with enzymes and proteins is excellent reading though a bit technical at times. I suggest this book because it would be good for you and your students. And as far as teaching religion in school I’m going to repeat what astronomer Dr. Carl Sagan, said “evolution is a religion which masquerades as science”.
The fact that you won’t allow the discussion of creation in your classroom is very sad because everyone should get a chance to hear both sides an make up their own minds.
Yes there are religious people but also nonreligious people looking (but not having to strain very hard) to discredit evolution. In fact a number of years ago astronomer Dr. Carl Sagan, said that “evolution is a religion which masquerades as science”. When molecular biologist Michael Denton was asked about the claims of evolution being a fact stated “Now of course such claims are simply nonsense.”
You asked what facts lead me to stop believing in evolution, well let’s start with just one, fruit flies. Since the early 1900’s, scientists have exposed millions of these flies to X rays. This increased the frequency of mutations to more than a hundred times what was normal. After many decades, what did the experiments show? Geneticist and evolutionary biologist Theodosius Dobzhansky made this comment “The clear-cut mutants of Drosophila, (fruit flies) with which so much of the classical research in genetics was done, are almost without exception inferior to wild-type flies in viability, fertility, longevity.”
Another result was that the mutations never produced anything new. And when mutated flies were mated with each other, it was found that after a number of generations, some normal fruit flies began to hatch. If left in their natural state, these normal flies would eventually have been the survivors over the weaker mutants, preserving the fruit fly in the form in which it had originally existed. Why this result? Because DNA, has a remarkable ability to repair genetic damage to itself. I could give you more facts but space on this forum is limited.
If there is so much evidence why are many scientist rejecting evolution.