(October 27, 2015 at 9:11 pm)TheRocketSurgeon Wrote: This is where I have trouble with Poe's Law.
Do they really think that about evolution? Do they really think that scientists just missed or ignored such simple insights as "cats don't give birth to dogs" and "second law of thermodynamics"? Do they really picture a global conspiracy by which we get Australian, Chinese, Italian, Japanese, Indian, and Russian scientists to agree with the science of the Western Powers, while only pretending that scientists are all in cutthroat competition with one another? Can they honestly look at the "too complex! so Jesus!" arguments of the other side, even after they have been systematically picked apart by a judge who should have been on the ID/IC crowd's side, as a still-viable competitor for 150+ years of scientific research? Can they honestly overlook the overwhelming, utter acceptance of scientific theories and focus on the minutae of actual discussions over new finds and interpretations of data?
I honestly don't get it. I can't understand how a person can operate an automobile and still not have the brain power to put 2 + 2 together about the purpose of the Wedge Document, and what its implications mean for the ID/IC movement. I can't understand what's so hard to understand about basic population genetics (beyond the Punnett Square, which seems as far as most people go). I can't understand why they don't see how lunatic the actual story is by modern understandings of the world, and cling instead to the words of a people who didn't know that the earth goes around the sun or that our earth is not flat with a firmament overhead, or know that putting stripe-cut sticks in front of your sheep when they mate so they'll "adapt" to the environment, allowing you to grow wealthy off your brilliant insight, is bullshit?
They have a poor understanding of evolution. Anything that goes against their beliefs is something they instantly dismiss. Anything that supports their beliefs are immediately accepted.
Global Warming? Not man made, and obviously not true. Nothing but an Obama conspiracy. Most scientists are wrong. Man can't effect the climate! Only God can.
They make the facts fit the conclusion, rather than make the conclusion fit the facts. It's likely why they believe in God in the first place. They don't go into anything with an open mind. They' already know what they're going to believe, and anyone who tries to convince them otherwise is just trying to deceive them. Much like of what they think the Devil is.
