Great Debate on Evolution; Necessity of Distinguishing between Fact and Interpretation

I'm just back here today to bring you a posting about evolution. First off, there's a pretty cool debate that recently took place about evolution. On the creationist side was Dr. Carl Wieland, director of the Australian branch of Creation Ministries International while the evolutionist was Dr. Paul Willis. Reading the comments, it seems as if Dr. Wieland won the debate fair and square. Anyways, I hope you enjoy watching it.

Also too, CMI has talked repeatedly on their Creation Magazine Live videos about distinguishing between fact and evolutionary interpretation. (Those videos feature two speakers from their Canadian branch, Richard Fangrad and Calvin Smith and give you a taste of what to expect in CMI's flagship publication Creation Magazine.) So I am going to do just that with an old school Kratts Creatures episode. (I already embedded one when I posted about the Tasmanian Devil awhile back.) This episode was entitled "Kickboxing Kangaroos" and in the 1st of the 3-part upload on Youtube, you can see a perfect example of what I'm talking about. From 4:11 to 7:56 of this first part we have fact followed by interpretation. The Kratt brothers first talk about the fact: a lot of unique Australian animals exist and are found only on Australia and the surrounding area such as the platypus, the koala and other creatures. This is then followed by Shannon Duth's character Allison Baldwin giving the evolutionary backdrop or interpretation of why these creatures are only found in Australia starting with some supposed Gondwanaland supercontinent which joined North America, South America, Australia and Antarctica. Then some millions of years later, Australia supposedly just broke off and separated from the rest of the world, leading to the "evolving" of many marsupials. The episode even went so far as to claim that they all evolved from a small marsupial similar to the pygmy possum. No evidence or anything was provided to back up the story other than the existence of the creatures that were mentioned beforehand. Imagine the laughter if a creation scientist had of attempted this for the Bible! I guess that since evolution is more naturalistic and doesn't necessarily need a creator, it must be OK. Anyways, here are the episode parts:

part 1

part 2

part 3


I'm not sure if the kangaroo story is still held today by evolutionists but if so it's a pretty good storyline if you ask me, but that's all it can be called. I just thought it was interesting. Catch you all later!