Evolution and Creationism, End of Discussion.
Last night it occurred to me how to frame the Evolution vs. Creationism issue in a short simple phrase that nobody can argue with:
Evolution seeks answers to the question;
creationism seeks questions for the answer.
Game over. Creationism is "anti-science" and should not even be considered as any part of a scientific curriculum.
posted by Schmootzie @ 11:43 AM
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Its a matter of whether you believe in evolution or creation.
If you believe in creation, then the chicken came first, but if you believe in evolution, then the egg came first.
I believe I'm hungry, so I'm going to make me an omelet.
Isabella,
A scientist cannot "believe" in evolution. The scientific method presents a hypothesis and tests it, then studies the data to determine whether they support or do not support the hypothesis.
With this, the vast evidence supports the notion that the earth is 4.some billion years old, round, not in the center of the universe, and replete with life that has slowly been shaped by gradual change.
The day someone can show me, with objective, scientific evidence that the earth was made by an invisible man with a beard 6,000 years ago,that it is flat and that Noah had dinosaurs on the ark I'm open to accept it.
I (and most scientists) work from examination of evidence, not from belief.
That's the difference. I don't want to believe, I want to know.
Carl Sagan said that, not me. He's dead, so I can rip him off without fear of reprisal.
and who better to rip off!
And I was, of course, being a silly goose.
I stopped believing in Cloud Friends just after I received my First Holy Communion. The nuns told me that when I had the wafer in my mouth, Jesus would talk to me.
There I knelt in my pew, all dressed in the purest white--Jesus' little bride--waiting to hear him speak.
Nothing.
I tried with all my might to hear something, anything.
Nothing.
Wait. Something. My own thoughts. I could hear myself thinking. And that was all.
Years later I read Vonnegut and thought of my Holy Communion experience as my "No damn cat; no damn cradle" moment.
ID and Creationism is hocus-pocus clap-trap.
Kidding aside, I do understand that one doesn't "believe" in evolution. (I was married to an MIT physics major for a number of years, and science was discussed at length and often in our home.)
My contribution to this effed up country: Two intelligent children who were never brain-washed in a religion, and who question everything anyone tells them. Especially me. ;)
Sorry, didn't get the sarcam. I'm just a bit sensitive these days on this topic as I see it as considerable grease on our national slide into oblivion.
It makes me sad to see ignorance win.
Clowns like Spaghetti, right?
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