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To: Ethan Clive Osgoode

OK, for rhetorical purposes, let’s assume that your point is correct. My response would be, “So what?”. The fact that they are using a certain concept to “mock” Christianity does not make the “concept” false on its face. You’re just being defensive and more than a bit hesitant in your own belief if that’s your best argument.


56 posted on 02/12/2009 7:39:23 AM PST by Buck W. (BHO: Selling hope, keeping the change.)
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To: Buck W.
You're missing the point.

Pointing out that many evangelical atheists use evolution to mock Christianity (as I did in Post #6) is not attempt on my part to show that evolution is a false concept. You're raised a strawman there.

My point is that very few people need to know, or have an opinion on evolution. If it happens to be true, it's basically invisible until you start really digging and looking at DNA, and all that. For most people, it's a complete non-issue.

But that ISN'T how our culture treats it. It's a HUGE deal in public school science classes. Why? Well, it's not about the science. There is no really important benefit in having 11 year olds know about evolution. Do we teach them String Theory? Organic Chemistry? Astrophysics? No. But we always -- always -- teach the kids about evolution.

Why?

It's because evolution is such a useful tool to mock Christians. "You don't need God. When the Bible says God made man, it's lying. We came from mud. We're not special. We don't have a soul. We're basically animals, a lot like monkeys swinging in trees."

For some folks, there a huge benefit in getting that message as the dominant theme in our civilization.

74 posted on 02/12/2009 7:54:47 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (Obama must be the Antichrist. No one else would work so hard to destroy the US.)
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