(October 19, 2015 at 12:54 pm)Blondie Wrote: I never said refused. More or less, did not care enough about it to look it up. It is like out of sight, out of mind type thing until maybe get curious enough about it. Then I might check it out. I did come on this site ignorantly, but why not go ahead and learn something now that I am here?If I asked you to research evolution, you would tell me, "No", would you not? That there is blatant refusal to broaden your horizons and learn more about something. And why don't you care to learn about it? Be honest with yourself, is it because you don't have an interest or is it because you don't want to accept it? What you experience in regards to evolution is known as "cognitive dissonance". You have a core belief in you. And whenever something pops up that directly contradicts it, there's this sensation of discomfort that you have to deal with. So what do you do? You protect the core belief, and deny the intrusion. You deny evolution because your brain can't handle it. You say you want to learn the truth? Research evolution. If you "don't feel like it", then that just proves that you really don't want to know.
I am not sure how to put this to get my idea across so please do not take any offense to it. Evolution has been said to have scientific evidence behind it. Now some creationists have also used science to show the earth much younger than what is originally thought. I can't find it right off the bat. But anyway, since science is science, both Creationists and Evolutionists use science to back their claims, who is right?
Like someone else said on this site that science has nothing to do with atheism, but it does help.
Creationists do not use science, they use their own personal branch of what they think to be true, rather than the objective truth that scientists pursue.
