Dicaci Kawan Dipuji Lawan
Todd Wood (Ph.D, University of Virginia) adalah seorang Kristen fundamentalis kreasionis. Beliau pendukung Young Earth Creationism (YEC), sebuah kelompok yang anti teori evolusi, sekaligus tidak percaya umur bumi sudah milyaran tahun. Keahlian Wood adalah biokimia, sama dengan keahlian Michael Behe, salah satu perintis gerakan Intelligent Design (ID) yang juga anti teori evolusi Darwin/neo-Darwin.
Todd Wood sosok kontroversial. Ia sempat dicaci kawan-kawannya sesama kreasionis, tetapi dipuji lawan-lawannya yang evolusionis. Mengapa? Wood menasihati kaum kreasionis, bahwa teori evolusi adalah teori yang didukung bukti, dan bukan teori yang gagal atau cacat. Tetapi, Wood tetap menegaskan bahwa ia lebih percaya Alkitab ketimbang teori evolusi. Mengapa Todd Wood tampak "plinplan"? Beliau menyatakan bahwa dirinya tidak gila, & tidak pula "bertobat" menjadi evolusionis. Barangkali, Wood berusaha bersikap profesional sebagai seorang biologiwan.
Berikut adalah kutipan lengkap nasihat dari Todd Wood untuk kawan-kawannya sesama kreasionis yang anti teori evolusi:
"The truth about evolution.
I hope this doesn't turn into a rant, but it might. You have been warned.
Evolution is not a theory in crisis. It is not teetering on the verge of collapse. It has not failed as a scientific explanation. There is evidence for evolution, gobs and gobs of it. It is not just speculation or a faith choice or an assumption or a religion. It is a productive framework for lots of biological research, and it has amazing explanatory power. There is no conspiracy to hide the truth about the failure of evolution. There has really been no failure of evolution as a scientific theory. It works, and it works well.
I say these things not because I'm crazy or because I've "converted" to evolution. I say these things because they are true. I'm motivated this morning by reading yet another clueless, well-meaning person pompously declaring that evolution is a failure. People who say that are either unacquainted with the inner workings of science or unacquainted with the evidence for evolution. (Technically, they could also be deluded or lying, but that seems rather uncharitable to say. Oops.)
Creationist students, listen to me very carefully: There is evidence for evolution, and evolution is an extremely successful scientific theory. That doesn't make it ultimately true, and it doesn't mean that there could not possibly be viable alternatives. It is my own faith choice to reject evolution, because I believe the Bible reveals true information about the history of the earth that is fundamentally incompatible with evolution. I am motivated to understand God's creation from what I believe to be a biblical, creationist perspective. Evolution itself is not flawed or without evidence. Please don't be duped into thinking that somehow evolution itself is a failure. Please don't idolize your own ability to reason. Faith is enough. If God said it, that should settle it. Maybe that's not enough for your scoffing professor or your non-Christian friends, but it should be enough for you.
I think that's all I want to say today. Rant over."-
Kepustakaan:
Dennis R. Venema & Scot McKnight, Adam and the Genome (Brazos Press, 2017).
Dennis Venema, "A Tale of Three Creationists" (biologos.org).
"Todd Wood" (CreationWiki).
Todd's Blog.
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