The religious fanatics have a real problem with facts that contradict their preconceived opinions... A relevant quote you might not have seen before...
"The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance... Or change. Once such incantatory phrases as "we see now through a looking glass darkly" and "mysterious are the ways in which He chooses His wonders to perform" are mastered, logic can be happily tossed out the window. Religious mania is one of the few infallible ways of responding to the world's vagaries, because it totally eliminates pure accident. To the true religious fanatic, it's all on purpose."
---Stephen King
Of course, the religious zealots will immediately attack King as a "horror-writer" or impugn his character, but it's a funny thing- they never try to debate the points he made...
FReegards,
The religious fanatics have a real problem with facts that contradict their preconceived opinions...
Spoken like a true fundamentalist warning the flock not to stray to far or consider any new ideas.
Funny. Usually it is the other way, the supposedly close minded findamentalists saying to their flock to be careful what ideas they listen to.
You see about this quote, the thing is that for most people here on one side of the debate the word religion can be substituted with "science" or evolution" and it is equally true.
Earlier one of the posters even said, "Science has the explanations" or some such.
It is an inverse fanaticism that is just as strange -- but moreso in that it presumes to actually be based on facts and evidence when it is based as much on dogma derived from belief (or anti-belief in this case).
There is biology and the subdiscipline of evolutionary biology, but then there is what I have refferred to as religious evolutionism which does contain the dyanamic described in King's comment -- just using a different perspective and bible, as it were.
The "debate" on these threads is always a religous fight, not a scientific discussion or argument. That goes for the supposed science following evolutionists who use it as a vehicle for their religious beliefs and argument.
Flip side of the same coin.