So we all have to believe in the religion of evolution? Where is the tolerance? Where is the inclusiveness? The mullahs of Science need to be aware that millions of us will never bring up our children to believe that they are ape-men instead of created by God in His image. Science giants of the past have been Christians who believed that God created the world. Today's science pygmies are too insecure to have their religious ideas about evolution challenged. Whose fault is that?
Devolution!
Adaptation is a forgotten term among some ideologists.
Thanks for your posting, but I'm not certainly I entirely understand your point. I have not seen 'evolution' presented as a religion, though I do understand that there are some who feel a conflict between their faith and modern science. But 'tolerance' and 'inclusiveness' are not, I think, particular attributes of science, at least not in the usual sense: I think the scientfic arena is much more about the competition of ideas, with those ideas that can present the better fit to the data carrying the day. Clearly, one argues about the 'fit' to the data, and new data can always bring about realignment in the credence one gives to any particular theory--that's how scientfic knowledge advances, and previous errors corrected over time. 'Inclusiveness' does seem meaningful to me in this context.
So we all have to believe in the religion of evolution?
C1
Where is the tolerance? Where is the inclusiveness?
D11
The mullahs of Science need to be aware that millions of us will never bring up our children to believe that they are ape-men instead of created by God in His image.
D9
Science giants of the past have been Christians who believed that God created the world. Today's science pygmies are too insecure to have their religious ideas about evolution challenged. Whose fault is that?
C1, C13 and D2 all in one shot.
Evolution is not a religion. Science does not have to be "tolerant" or "inclusive" of unscientific ideas. Scientists are not "mullahs," and they will never force you to teach your childrean anything. Finally, science is not atheism.
We may be created in the image of the Divine, but it appears that there were at least 10 homids before us, with various degrees of simularity.
All this could change if one found a chimp fossil inside the belly of a T-Rex. Intelligent design is not so much false, but unfalsifiable, for the Divine could have created the fossils in the ground to mislead. That leads to the theological question, does the Divine lie, and if so, why?
Evolution is the most elegant way by which I can image that the Divine could have created a body to hold a soul.
"We are in the position of little child entering a huge library filled with books in many different languages. The child knows that someone must have written those books. It does not know how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn't know what it is. That it seems to me is the attitude of even the most intelligent being toward God. We see a universe marvelously arranged and obeying certain laws, but only dimly understand those laws. Our limited minds cannot grasp the mysterious force that moves the constellations." Albert Einstein - 1929