Evolution Vs. Creationism
#1
Posted 19 February 2009 - 03:56
#2
Posted 19 February 2009 - 07:05
Edited by Rayburn, 19 February 2009 - 07:13.
#3
Posted 19 February 2009 - 07:31
#4
Posted 19 February 2009 - 09:18
Edited by Insomniac!, 19 February 2009 - 09:18.
#5
Posted 19 February 2009 - 09:27
All in all, if someone would adopt a religion when they've matured, fine, if they take solace in that, let them. But the raising of a child with this something-that-can't-be-called-anything-but-propaganda is a bad idea, methinks.
EDIT: @ Ion: pipe down there a bit on the 'idiots', please.
Edited by Chyros, 19 February 2009 - 09:30.
The brave hide behind technology. The stupid hide from it. The clever have technology, and hide it.
—The Book of Cataclysm
#6
Posted 19 February 2009 - 13:40
It's also possible thousand decades (or few millions years) B.C. some allien landed on Earth who are ressponsible for our existence (our ancestors were workers/slaves, they were "gods") or 2001: The Space Oddyssey , but it's same possible there were no alliens affecting Earth life evolution.
Scientific thinking about Space creation tends to 2 scenarios - there was primeval "matter" where was some fluctuation which ended in the Big Bang:
#1 it was just random fluctuation, an accident
#2 somebody caused this
But this is rather Dauth's area, not mine.
Possibility #1 can be frustrating for many people, so this is one thing (from many) which helps teistic religions to be alive (with #2).
There are many people around the world who believes Alliens were involved in many biological changes in the history of Earth life (some of them even think they created Moon), those Dänniken-like people have maybe weird opinion, but they aren't dangerous from this point.
Worse are those who connects these hypothesises with religion, like Raellians or Creationists. I don't know what can I expect from Raellians, but similar (in religion) denominations are responsible for kidnapping, mass suicides of their members (like when whole family commited suicide with exhaust gas), exploitation of their members by many ways (many denominations generally do this, Hare Krishna is one of those rather harmless). Creationists are recruited from fundamental Christianists. This can be dangerous. If someone says God created everything, it's a God's will, they need to be punished in the name of God -> new Crusade, worse than attacking terrorist countries.
Creationism is one mark of fundamental Christianist (so every spread of the Creationism is pretty scary) and we all know what islamic fundamentalists are doing, this can be similar... Believe what you want (you can be even Satanist without: human sacrifices or human torture or animal torture), but don't start the inquisition or the Holy War...
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#7
Posted 19 February 2009 - 18:38
Insomniac!, on 19 Feb 2009, 9:18, said:
My thoughts exactly. Creationism has as much of a place in a biology class as the study of the life cycle of pixies.
#8
Posted 19 February 2009 - 21:36
Now, I'm prolly biased against creationism due to the fact that I've spent the first half of my life living in China, where crap like creationism would've been laughable.
I also find it worrying that staatiscally, (I forget where I heard this exactly, but it was from a reliable news gathering agency) that nearly half of Americans don't 'believe' in evolution.
#9
Posted 20 February 2009 - 20:23
Why is it in the PA, isn't this philosophical? In which IIRC, there is already a topic about this subject? (or a topic derailed into it).
I guess 97.6 percent of the PA userbase is against creatonism. What's the use of debating it here then.
#10
Posted 20 February 2009 - 21:27
#11
Posted 20 February 2009 - 21:47
But I see it is also about teaching Creatonism on schools. So I guess that makes it political.
And what, offended by a discussion? That's exactly what people are being against here. A good christian would open up for discussion instead of act zealous and go feel 'offended'. You people are expected to be the least to care about such an 'Offended' christian because you despise it in this topic that much.
Edited by Aftershock, 20 February 2009 - 22:30.
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