(October 23, 2015 at 4:51 am)TheRocketSurgeon Wrote: Blondie - All jokes aside, there really is not an "other side" to this "debate". There's not really a debate.
What we have operating here are people who started out with an a priori assumption, that the Bible is 100% literal and accurate, and they do everything in their power to uphold that belief no matter what they must twist in order to make it fit the presumption.
On "the other side", you have 150 years of scientists fighting with one another to confirm or deny ideas that, initially, went against the weight of thought on the subject. You have people who have every reason to not believe anything anyone else says, since they come from various countries and religious backgrounds, agreeing with one another on 99% of the details of the theory. To put it another way, roughly half of the evolutionary biologists out there are religious, and most of those are Christians. Two popes have come out and said that evolution is reality. Why would any of them agree with evolutionary biology if it was made up?
Try to picture someone agreeing with the Creationists who didn't already start out as a Creationist. Just try to picture it.
Debate was the best word I could use here. My brain isn't functioning at the moment.
