Plenty of people like myself are not christian, (Or any religion,) and yet do not accept evolution as fact.
I do not reject it out of hand, I just don't buy into it. But then if it IS true it doesn't threaten any beliefs or ideas of mine, so I don't truly care if it is true. I do not offer any alternative, (I certainly don't promote the Judeo-Christian idea,) I just refuse to take someone else's word for it.
That article is the best, most open-minded defense of evolution I have ever seen. When I inform people that I find the theory of evolution just as fantastical as creationism, they usually lose it. I have heard plenty of rants about what an ignorant fool I am for not just accepting what established people say is the truth.
Most defenders of evolution attack me with religious fervor when I express doubt about evolution. That simple fact alone solidifies my doubt. Despite claiming to be open minded people who subscribe to scientific theory, they obviously hold their views in much the same way as church-goers. The level of rabid hate in their attacks is indistingiushable from that of fundamentalists.
Now, that speaker did an excellent job of answering most of the questions proposed by the text book preface. They also espoused teaching an alternative to evolution, (With the assumption that the evidence alone should convince pupils which should be accepted.) That is the most open-minded viewpoint I have ever seen from an academic.
I think that with modifications done by the speaker, that that textbook preface should be in every science book.
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very interesting
Date: 2004-11-10 09:14 pm (UTC)I do not reject it out of hand, I just don't buy into it. But then if it IS true it doesn't threaten any beliefs or ideas of mine, so I don't truly care if it is true. I do not offer any alternative, (I certainly don't promote the Judeo-Christian idea,) I just refuse to take someone else's word for it.
That article is the best, most open-minded defense of evolution I have ever seen. When I inform people that I find the theory of evolution just as fantastical as creationism, they usually lose it. I have heard plenty of rants about what an ignorant fool I am for not just accepting what established people say is the truth.
Most defenders of evolution attack me with religious fervor when I express doubt about evolution. That simple fact alone solidifies my doubt. Despite claiming to be open minded people who subscribe to scientific theory, they obviously hold their views in much the same way as church-goers. The level of rabid hate in their attacks is indistingiushable from that of fundamentalists.
Now, that speaker did an excellent job of answering most of the questions proposed by the text book preface. They also espoused teaching an alternative to evolution, (With the assumption that the evidence alone should convince pupils which should be accepted.) That is the most open-minded viewpoint I have ever seen from an academic.
I think that with modifications done by the speaker, that that textbook preface should be in every science book.
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