[Just mythoughts]

No wonder you find comfort in evolution.

I have to wonder if there is not a similar story behind 80% of evolutionists. I imagine those calling you names were probably the most outstanding church goers.

[RadioAstronomer]

No wonder you find comfort in evolution.

Believe it or not, I do not find comfort in evolution. It is just a theory that has evidence to back it up. Actually, I find the theory cold and disheartening. However, as a scientist, I have to accept the evidence presented.

I have to wonder if there is not a similar story behind 80% of evolutionists.

I would doubt it. Much of the scientific community agrees with evolution.

I imagine those calling you names were probably the most outstanding church goers.

This is true. However, in the end I became a born again Christian fundamentalist who accepted a 6000-year-old Earth and Heavens. I took the bible literally. (Did you know I have read it thru a number of times?) However, as I studied the evidence as I continued my education, I began to see discrepancies between what was written and evidence I could measure with my own instruments. Over time, I had to abandon the quaint notion of a 6K-year-old universe and embrace the far more complex vistas of science, cosmology, astronomy, geology, biology, and evolution. (I fought doing that tooth and nail at first. Hey it's hard to shake your very faith to the core. But the evidence and my scientific training forced me to).

This is where I come from.

[AntiGuv]

Well, I was raised in a strict Orthodox/Catholic household myself, and my only social network outside of school was the church community. Since I grew up with the concept of evolution from a very young age (one of the first three books I received together was an illustrated Encyclopedia of Prehistoric Life) it never occurred to me that there might be a conflict between religion and science until my late teens when I became aware of the controversy. I had the two perfectly well reconciled in my own mind throughout, and it didn't make any difference when I formally studied evolution either.

My faith didn't begin falling apart until I was in college, and it had nothing to do with the dissonance between the scriptures and empiricism. It had to do with the irreconcilable paradoxes of Christian theology alongside my studies of its historical emergence and development. One day I finally looked up and thought to myself: what silly nonsense this all is. And BTW I've never come to peace with that, but reality is what it is, not what I want it to be.

[Dimensio]

No wonder you find comfort in evolution.

What an utterly illogical connection. Exactly the kind of lack of logic in attempting to relate events that I would expect from a creationist.

I have to wonder if there is not a similar story behind 80% of evolutionists.

What, that 80% of us were teased because we were adopted? I think you'll find that to be the case for far less than 80% or even 25% of those who accept the theory of evolution.