Originally Posted by Dove of Peace:
Originally Posted by Not Shallow Not Slim:
Somewhere today, or most likely several somewheres, innocent people who trust their ministers were lied to about Creationism. They were lied to about a 6000 year old Earth, Adam and Eve and Original Sin, dinosaurs walking among people, and Noah's Flood.
What have you done recently to challenge these obvious and harmful lies?
DF
Wow... What a blanket statement! The type that normally trigger my distrust bone...I won't ask you to prove that because I realize that proving a negative is impossible. I will, however, ask you to provide us with just a bit of evidence to support your claim.
"obvious and harmful lies". How so? What makes them obvious and why are they harmful?
And before you try to get around the answer and turnfesta to a rant-fest, I'll tell you my feelings.
I strongly believe in the Creation. However, I believe also there there has been considerable evolution. This is not a black and white question. There is a middle ground. Science goes a long way in support of evolution. Yet most scientist have a strong belief in the Bible and the creation. Must we always have a my way or the highway stance on these issues that are worthy of discussion? Science and Christian beliefs are not mutually exclusive!
There is no middle ground. Usually, either one believes in the Poof Theory of Creation or the standard scientific model. I'll admit the standard scientific model is probably not 100% correct, but the Poof Theory is probably not .0001% correct. The difference is, the standard scientific model craves correction, while the Poof Theorists lie about and distorts the faintest scientific question as proof that their superstition is correct. The Poof Theorists start with an answer and fabricate "evidence" to support it. It is inhuman and despicable in its very premise.
I don't give two shirts about your phd in Earth Sciences or whatever. In fact, I don't believe you. You have a phd in Earth Sciences like I have a phd in Banana Slug Psychology. I await your credentials.
The obvious and harmful lies that Creationists submit include the rejection of every branch of science that exists. It is an anti-scientific, anti-intellectual, pro-superstition stance that will retard the common education of an entire generation of Americans to our profound disadvantage, and I resent it as a progressive American.
How dare you present Creationism as anything other than ancient myth? Have you no decency?
DF