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It has been my observation that those who claim to believe Evolution, apply a dogmatic skepticism to, and refuse to research, any information contradicting their, apparently deeply held belief.

Does evolution have to be false for your beliefs to be true? Or, put another way, if evolution is true is Christianity false?

And to clarify, does your rejection of evolution include a rejection of natural selection, genetics, geology, astrophysics and anthropology or something more narrow and specific?

And finally, if I am going to be skeptical regarding evolution, what should I replace it with to explain our observations in nature?

"It has been my observation that those who claim to believe Evolution, apply a dogmatic skepticism to, and refuse to research, any information contradicting their, apparently deeply held belief."

"Does evolution have to be false for your beliefs to be true? Or, put another way, if evolution is true is Christianity false?
And to clarify, does your rejection of evolution include a rejection of natural selection, genetics, geology, astrophysics and anthropology or something more narrow and specific?
And finally, if I am going to be skeptical regarding evolution, what should I replace it with to explain our observations in nature?"

You got quite a few big if's in there.

Evolution and Creation claim total opposites, so if you use standard logic, if one is correct the other must be incorrect.

Is not natural selection just the demise of the least fit?

If so, I have no problem with it or genetics, geology, astrophysics and anthropology in a scientific setting as long as it is empirical science.

It is Science based on dogmatic, non-empirical axioms that I have a problem with.

Something can be accepted or rejected on merit, or the lack thereof, without skepticism ever playing a part.

According to my very old dictionary:

Skepticism
1 : The philosophical doctrine that true and absolute knowledge is unattainable
2 : An attitude of doubt, or uncertainty especially about religious matters