Orwell wrote:
vibratetogether wrote:
I admit it can be a little offputting hearing it in sound byte form, but when you dive in, they are some crazy smart people.
So? There are some remarkably intelligent Young-Earth Creationists, but their beliefs are still absurd.
Perhaps, but I really do feel that few people understand AC, because it's not very well known. What little some people know of it is generally distorted, and even I would be against their distorted view of AC. As it actually is, I see it as a vast improvement over our current system, perhaps not ideal, but a vast improvement.
I admit it's a bit like socialism though, in that there needs to be some fundamental changes in the human character for it to work. I think it would be doable in a matter of a couple generations, but of course, there isn't much interest in society as a whole to make these sort of changes.
Please don't call it absurd though, and definitely don't compare it to YECs, the level of thought put into AC is actually pretty astounding if you really get into reading about it.
This is a pretty good starter FAQ.
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