Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person.
Colossians 4:6
"......watching the movie Jurassic World just because a scientist drops the line,
“ … the [dinosaur] soft tissue is preserved because the iron in the dinosaur’s blood generates free radicals, and those are highly reactive. So, the proteins and the cell membranes get all mixed up, and and uh… act as a natural preservative. DNA can survive for a millennia that way.”
This is of course a discredited theory
(iron has certainly not been demonstrated to be capable of preserving
soft tissue for “millennia”), but no matter.
In the movie, it is stated
as a plain fact by a scientist. Sure, it’s ‘just fiction’, but the
impression left on the audience is the same regardless. It inoculates
them against one of the most powerful evidences against evolution and millions of years!
Evolutionary psychology is another very serious offender in this regard. Despite the embarrassing and tragic history of lobotomies being done on people under the false premise of an ancient ‘lizard brain’ sandwiched inside our more highly evolved human brains, the idea of the “old brain” keeps getting repeated even in more recently-produced textbooks. One textbook produced in 2010 reads,
“The innermost structures of the brain — the parts nearest the spinal cord — are the oldest part of the brain, and these areas carry out the same functions they did for our distant ancestors.”Is the above quote ‘science’? No, it’s simply an assumption being made based on an evolutionary worldview. But since students read it in a psychology textbook, they will take it for granted. Some of those students may not even be science majors! They will take this evolutionary thinking with them into whatever field they eventually wind up in. And the cycle of misinformation will continue." AIG