{"id":28698,"date":"2015-09-02T16:00:15","date_gmt":"2015-09-02T15:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/?p=28698"},"modified":"2017-11-25T18:42:55","modified_gmt":"2017-11-25T18:42:55","slug":"miracles-are-a-glaring-problem-for-evolution-and-heres-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/miracles-are-a-glaring-problem-for-evolution-and-heres-why\/","title":{"rendered":"Miracles are a Glaring Problem for Evolution, and Here\u2019s Why"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The movement against miracles was, not surprisingly, influential in the natural sciences. Simply put, if we\u2019re not to appeal to miracles, then the world must have arisen naturalistically. This had a profound effect on the critical thinking, or lack thereof, of the time. Speculative hypotheses, with little basis in fact, enjoyed serious consideration and triumphant acceptance.<\/p>\n<p>The bar was placed exceedingly low for such theories as pure conjecture became acceptable and celebrated science. Monumental scientific problems with the notion of spontaneous origins went ignored and evolutionary theories (from cosmological to biological) soon became \u201cfact.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Today strictly naturalistic, evolutionary, theories are a given. They simply are accepted as true, or as true as anything in science can be. And it also is a given that miracles are false. But what evolutionists prefer to overlook is that there is a causal relationship here. The latter made way for, and mandated, the former.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/darwins-god.blogspot.com\/2015\/06\/miracles-are-glaring-problem-for.html?m=1\">http:\/\/darwins-god.blogspot.com\/2015\/06\/miracles-are-glaring-problem-for.html?m=1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t want to mischaracterize Intelligent Design, but&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The movement against miracles was, not surprisingly, influential in the natural sciences. Simply put, if we\u2019re not to appeal to miracles, then the world must have arisen naturalistically. This had a profound effect on the critical thinking, or lack thereof, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/miracles-are-a-glaring-problem-for-evolution-and-heres-why\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}