>>My question is — why should I care? What difference does it make? Personally, I think it is a trivial debate which has a tendency to draw in and distract well-meaning Christian
It depends? Do you want the next generation of Americans to taker a scientific back seat to India and China? And the generation after that to take a back seat to Somalia and Indonesia?
Teaching the idea that theology is somehow science — APPLICABLE science — goes well beyond the academic.
>> It depends? Do you want the next generation of Americans to taker a scientific back seat to India and China? And the generation after that to take a back seat to Somalia and Indonesia? Teaching the idea that theology is somehow science — APPLICABLE science — goes well beyond the academic.
Acceptance or non-acceptance of the theory of evolution will have no affect whatsoever on the scientific status of American institutions or industry. In short — we’re not falling behind because of non-acceptance of evolution.
This particular theory is an extremely narrow sliver of scientific research, and opinions on it have no affect on the overall scientific prowess of the United States.
SnakeDoc
There is no need to take "scientific" back seat to anyone.
Science WILL prove creation. Biology will progress as it has, because all it involves is learning the complexity of what was obviously created.
It's clear simply by the ordered complexity of a simple cell, the library of information it contains that it did NOT happen by accident, ONCE, never mind a billion times over against odds with zeros that stretch across the universe.
For some reason, however, you seem to think it involves a bible lesson. It does not. You seem to have some sort of mental block in your mind that prevents you from realizing that pursuing science with an open mind, will somehow make us take a "back seat to something.
I say persuing science which excludes anything that does not agree with evolution THEORY is what will put the next generation in the back seat.