(June 27, 2017 at 9:32 am)Brian37 Wrote:(June 27, 2017 at 8:51 am)FatAndFaithless Wrote: I mean, haven't we known about Chromosomal Adam and Mitochondrial Eve for a while now? I wish they hadn't chosen those names since it's just another couple of baggage-laden words, but it's really nothing to do with the Adam or Eve in religious texts.
Unfortunately they do that to placate religion, they shouldn't but they do it because it gives them a door to promote science while not pissing off theists.
The theist will regardless go "A HA!" Just like they did when people called the Higgs Boson the "God Particle".
It is bullshit. Scientific method has always been completely separate and independent of all religions.
That doesn't mean popularizing of the results of science is not better served by leveraging existing cultural references.
I have a feeling that while you might be a book burner claiming to be serving what is really a better cause, you are a book burner first and foremost nonetheless.
