It is an under-appreciated fact that one only needs to find /one/
highly qualified, knowledgeable, sincere, honest and intelligent
scientist who believes that science supports the biblical creation
account over evolution and billions of years, and that /immediately/
calls into serious question the status quo of majority belief. The
/only/ reason one need look for more than /one/ such person is merely
to be certain that there is not some aberration or dishonesty
involved, after all.
After we have found only /one/ such unimpeachable witness that science
supports biblical creation, and are certain that there is no
dishonesty, ignorance, gullibility, stupidity, etc., then it
absolutely cannot be a numbers game! We cannot say that 95% of
scientists (or any other figure) believe such and such, so therefore
it must be true. Instead, truth must be determined by weighing the
evidence.
Now, it is a fact worth noting that not only is there one such
scientist, but there are thousands of them from all over the world,
from different walks of life, raised in many various ways, as
Christians, Jews, atheists or something else. To say that these
scientists are wrong, because a greater number disagree is absolutely
absurd and irrational! In fact, it's a logical fallacy: truth can
never be determined by majority vote!
Yet, it is on precisely this very irrationality and on this logical
fallacy that countless people base their belief in evolution over
creation! Whether layman or scientist, these people believe, in truth,
for no other reason than that they have heard it day in and day out
from thousands of respected and trusted authority figures, parents,
teachers, lecturers, pubished authors, TV producers and so on. That is
not logic and science, but emotion!
The truth is that science is not a popularity contest. Its
propositions are not determined by who votes for them. Scientific
knowledge does not depend on faith and belief! It depends on evidence
and experiments. It depends on verifiability and repeatability. It
does not depend on opinion. A plane flies because of physics, not
because of a scientist's faith.
Once you have found your /one/ (or a thousand!) honest, intelligent,
qualified scientist who believes in biblical creation, then you must
start to weigh the actual evidence for each alternative: creation or
evolution. In truth, those are the /only/ alternatives. If things did
not make themselves, then something or someone made them!
