TheBicyclingGuitarist wrote:
The worst part about the term "Creationist" is that it usually implies denial of what is demonstrably real. It is very possible to believe in a Creator without being batshit crazy in denial of reality, but the fundies try to make it look like if you accept the reality of evolution that automatically means you are rejecting God. What one is rejecting is the Biblical literalist interpretation that has theological problems in addition to being falsified by the evidence of the physical world.
Here is a quick list of some important points to make about this subject:
Accepting evolution does NOT necessarily mean rejecting God.
It IS possible to believe in a Creator (even the God of the Christian Bible) without denying that evolution happens.
Most Christians worldwide belong to churches that either accept the fact of evolution or say it doesn't matter to their faith.
The fundies are batshit crazy and have dumbed down this country to an amazing (and disgusting) degree.
Creationist sources ignore most of the strongest evidence for evolution and they deny or distort what they do not ignore, so people who base their opinon about evolution on this misinformation are naturally going to have bogus opinions because their knowledge of this subject is so inaccurate.
^If more fundamentalists could realize this, maybe there would be a whole lot less hatred spewed out of the mouths of those supposed Christians.
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"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently" -Nietzsche
24 Jun 2014, 1:23 pm
