May 27, 2012 (I have this here because I want to make some comments of the faulty arguements presented)
The debate over evolution will be a thing of the past within the next three decades, the son of archaeologists Louis Leakey and Mary Leakey has proclaimed.
In an interview with the Associated Press (AP), Richard Leakey, a 67-year-old, Kenyan-born Stony Brook University professor, paleoanthropologist, and avowed atheist, said that he believed scientific discoveries over the next 15 to 30 years will have reached the point that “even the skeptics” will be able to accept the theory put forth by Charles Darwin in his 1859 book Origin of Species.
“If you get to the stage where you can persuade people on the evidence, that it’s solid, that we are all African, that color is superficial, that stages of development of culture are all interactive, then I think we have a chance of a world that will respond better to global challenges,” he said.
“If we’re spreading out across the world from centers like Europe and America that evolution is nonsense and science is nonsense,(Creation Scientist do not spread the idea that science is nonsense. The arguement is over empirical science which is done in the labratory and is testable and retestable for confirmation and historical science which is speculation about the past based on evolutionary presuppositions) how do you combat new pathogens, how do you combat new strains of disease that are evolving in the environment?(New strains of disease do not prove bacteria to people evolution nor show bacteria to people evolution. The new strains are still viruses or bacteria and have not evolved into something new with more genetic information. They are merely variations of the same bacteria or virus with greater resistance to medicines and antibiotics because of a mutation which has given them better survival abilities.Dennis)” Leakey continued.
“If you don’t like the word evolution, I don’t care what you call it, but life has changed.(Obviously life has changed because variation in kinds has taken place. That is why we have 1000´s of different type of dogs.But they are still dogs and do not prove bacteria to people evolution.Dennis) You can find explanation for this change going back 500 million years in any book I’ve read from the lips of any prominent scientist. All the fossils that have been collected establish lineages that even a fool could work up,” he added. “So the question is why, how does this happen?( they just assume that bacteria to people evolution has occurred, but assuming it does not make it so, even though it seems to be sufficient for the evolutionary scientist. Dennis) It’s not covered by Genesis. There’s no God.”
According to the AP story, Leakey began hunting for fossils in the 1960s. In 1984, he and a team of colleagues discovered “Turkana Boy,” a nearly 1.6 million year old skeleton in 1984 that became “the first known early human with long legs, short arms and a tall stature.”
He was appointed the head of the Wildlife Conservation and Management Department (WMCD) — later the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) — in 1989, where he helped establish anti-poaching teams to protect elephants and other animals.(Because he is saving the animals we should accept his philosophy, seems to be the reasoning for making this point, though it has nothing to do with his science.Dennis)
Despite his own personal views on both religion and evolution, Leakey emphasized to the AP that he was not anti religious, saying, “If you tell me, well, people really need a faith … I understand that… I see no reason why you shouldn’t go through your life thinking if you’re a good citizen, you’ll get a better future in the afterlife.”(But obviously he considers this a weak position as he himself says, "There is no God." dennis)
Source: RedOrbit Staff & Wire Reports
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