RE: Challenge to Evolution Deniers
April 25, 2011 at 1:41 am
(This post was last modified: April 25, 2011 at 1:50 am by Violet.)
To be clear to anyone new, I in no way am an evolution denier.
With the advent of 'human rights' and such, it becomes very damaging to be publicly seen burning people at the stake. That said, I should hope scientists are intelligent enough to not make it appear that they are in cohorts
Fracturing takes time. You said yourself that evolution has only been around 100 years (I could have sworn it was longer myself).... that is hardly enough time. And as you claim there was still a dispute in the 'doctrine'.
This is a modern age... care to tell me how many different brands of Scientology there are?
Ahh, but you see: that would require me to have evidence. Which was my contention (that I would only "defend" this position for so long as evidence is not required).
There is of course the effect that evolution has on education. Perhaps it is that this was a precedent to the rest of their plan... Act One, so to speak.
Minimalist Wrote:Generally at sword point, Sae. You'll have to show me where mobs of "scientists" burned jesus freaks at the stake in order to make them believe in evolution. Somehow, that has been left out of the history books but, I imagine, that's all part of the conspiracy!
With the advent of 'human rights' and such, it becomes very damaging to be publicly seen burning people at the stake. That said, I should hope scientists are intelligent enough to not make it appear that they are in cohorts
DeistPaladin Wrote:1. Religion does fracture apart, even with the most draconian efforts to put the kibosh on heterodoxy. How many thousands of different brands of Christianity are there again? How many thousands of different translations are there of the perfect and inerrant "Word of God" again? Even in the early centuries of Christianity there were several different kinds, so radically different from each other as to make the distinction between Islam and Trinitarian Christianity look like petty theological hair-splitting.
By contrast, there haven't been any schisms in the theory of evolution apart from the early dispute between the Darwinian and Lamarckian factions.
Fracturing takes time. You said yourself that evolution has only been around 100 years (I could have sworn it was longer myself).... that is hardly enough time. And as you claim there was still a dispute in the 'doctrine'.
This is a modern age... care to tell me how many different brands of Scientology there are?
Quote:2. Show me some evolutionary scientists preaching on TV and making money off gullible viewers and I'll agree there's enough money to be made as to justify the resources that would be needed to sustain a global conspiracy of this magnitude for over 100 years.
Ahh, but you see: that would require me to have evidence. Which was my contention (that I would only "defend" this position for so long as evidence is not required).
There is of course the effect that evolution has on education. Perhaps it is that this was a precedent to the rest of their plan... Act One, so to speak.
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
