When an article is posted and the gripes about the author, the subject, the forum, everything but what the article actually deals with become the whole of the thread, it kind of leaves me without much to say.
“It kind of makes you wonder why the evos complain so much about not being able to have any decent debates about science on crevo threads, when they’re the worst offenders for getting them off track and into religious doctrine wars.”
Evolution is accepted, from what i see, in the same way as religion is and so I think it is justifiably called such. It has it's saints and doctrine and claims to provide a way to “truth”, therefore its luminaries can countenance no rivalry from other gods, particularly those of the “unscientific”. ‘If your science is suspect, so is your God’ as it were.
Carl Sagan thought a “benign and indifferent God” was possible, Gould, though an atheist, thought religion had its place and should stay there on the reservation, Lewontin said no Divine Foot could be allowed in the door, etc. so inevitable religion must come into the discussion just as these fellows recognized when the “big questions” of life are weighed.
It’s exactly the evo reaction to religion that demonstrates the point.
They are reacting as any other religion would to challenges to their dogma.
“Evolution is accepted, from what i see, in the same way as religion is and so I think it is justifiably called such.”
Prove this.