[Notary Sojac]

If you spend much time on FR’s evolution threads, it’s easy to get the impression that the “better informed”, non “Luddite” Christian is about as rare a specimen as the moderate Muslim.

[wendy1946]

The original post here had nothing to do with Christianity; just a rundown of the scientific reasons for viewing evolution as junk science.

I'll say it again, I am not into pushing religion. I'll RECOMMEND Christianity if somebody WANTS a recommendation, but in most cases all you're really talking about is people wondering what to do with themselves after they realize that evolution is unworkable on purely scientific grounds and, for that, i.e. for the large numbers of people who simply need something to replace evoloserism, any religion other than I-slam would do and that includes Voodoo and Rastafari.

Neither Voodoo nor Rastafari requires anybody to believe in infinite sequences of probabilistic miracles and zero-probability events as does evolution.

[The Comedian]

If you spend much time on FR’s evolution threads, it’s easy to get the impression that the “better informed”, non “Luddite” Christian is about as rare a specimen as the moderate Muslim.

Yikes.

Hopefully the less strangulation-dogma-inclined believers are just quiet on the subject.

For what it's worth, I think the basic idea behind morphogenic fields is close to the truth. David Bohm's enfolded holomovement model fits too. The tiniest tip of the reality iceberg peaks out of the probability sea as physical life. I think the patterns are far deeper than mere "random" molecular recombination, but they certainly drive it.

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