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To: Natural Law; celmak
The problem I am alluding to has little to do with the evolution versus creation debate, and has a lot to do with teaching critical thinking and scientific skepticism.

The difficulty in expressing any scientific skepticism, at least on FR, is that as soon as one questions a currently held assumption for whatever reason (Like you want to know WHY it's a currently held assumption, the reasoning behind it) the knee jerk reaction tends to be that it's a religious attack on science.

I've been accused more times than I can count of getting all my anti-science thinking from creationist websites, which I do not frequent.

I've gone to them to verify what someone has said about them, just as I've checked out TalkOrigins and other evolutionist websites to see what they have to say.

But not every question everyone has is a religious attack on science. And people are not stupid because they don't agree with everything current scientific consensus claims.

There seems to be quite a double standard. On one hand we're told that skepticism is good and scientific theories should be challenged, yet when they are, the person challenging is often attacked. And within the scientific community, there's often disagreement on theories, yet if someone knows that you're coming from a religious perspective, what you think about science notwithstanding, you're immediately labeled as a *Creation scientist*, with no knowledge and no regard of what you're really thinking.

179 posted on 12/02/2009 6:37:19 AM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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180 posted on 12/02/2009 9:39:42 AM PST by celmak
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