RE: How is one orgins story considered better than another
December 3, 2014 at 7:01 pm
(This post was last modified: December 3, 2014 at 7:03 pm by TheRealJoeFish.)
(December 3, 2014 at 4:41 pm)Drich Wrote: Look at how many times it has changed in just the last 20 years. If our understanding of physics changed as many times we would everything throw out and start over.
There is so much wrong with this that I don't know where to start. But I'll try:
- Our understanding of physics changes ALL THE EFFING TIME as experiment confirms or refutes theory. Or do you mean Newtonian physics?
-What are all these changes in our understanding of creation in the last 20 years that you are talking about? I'm pretty sure the theory of evolution was just as solid 20 years ago. Age of the universe? Experiments getting better! What are your examples of the scientific consensus changing?
No, here's what I really think is happening: I think our understanding in ALL fields of science - math, chemistry, physics, biology, cosmology, medicine, and any combination of those (like evolution) - is changing more rapidly now than ever. But only one of these is a hot-button issue among the religious right, and that's the only one they bother to pay attention to and talk about and listen to each other about, and so that's the only branch of science the constant changes in and refinings of which they're aware of.
/end rant
