I don't agree with your 90% number, but yes it is absolutely turning away from God.
If people don't believe God's Word then they can just make up any "truth" they want to replace it.
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Thanks for the response.
And which are little more than a structure for the mind to absorb so that further lessons and information may be memorized?
...and yet oddly enough, it's the creationists who keep getting caught spewing endless falsehoods on this subject, while it's the "evolutionists" who keep going through a great deal of time and trouble to double-check their conclusions against reality (you know, that "science" stuff you may have heard about on the Cartoon Network).
Yet again, perhaps you don't know what in the heck you're talking about. Or maybe you're just making it as you go along because you think any false slander is justified when fighting that "evilution", eh?
Pathetic.
To which Jorge replied:
I don't agree with your 90% number, but yes it is absolutely turning away from God.
If people don't believe God's Word then they can just make up any "truth" they want to replace it.
Most of the people that I have personally known from working in biology and geosciences fields are not atheists. Contrary to popular notions on these threads, many of them are church (or synagogue) going people, and most of them have some measure of religious faith. None of them believes that evolutionary theory, or other scientific theories such as plate tectonic theory, is necessarily in conflict with their religion.
What we are seeing in these threads, then, is not a conflict between science and religion. For most people, including most religious people, science and faith are not opposed to one another. What we are experiencing is a sectarian conflict. This conflict exists between those with a certain highly literal interpretation of the Genesis chapter and people who hold more mainstream viewpoints. The theological position of mainstream Judaism and Christianity (including conservative denominations such as the Southern Baptists) is that the Lord exists beyond scientific scrutiny. However, when the scientific evidence does not square with some people's theological positions, it is the evidence and scientific method that become suspect.
The result is the hostility demonstrated on these threads towards modern biology and science in general. Notice the desire among some people to demonstrate that evolution is useless -- that it has no practical application. Observe the rejection of modern oil exploration techniques. Notice also the advancement of the idea that our understanding of fossil fuels is totally wrong, that our understanding of geology and geologic time is suspect.
How many times in these threads have I heard people say "you can't be a Christian if you believe in evolution" and the like? This is a sectarian conflict. It isn't science versus Christianity at all. In actuality, this conflict is about some people seeking to elevate their theological position above the theological positions of others.