(December 9, 2018 at 1:32 pm)Gwaithmir Wrote:(December 9, 2018 at 1:09 pm)CDF47 Wrote: If you are going to watch videos start with the videos in my signature. Then watch "Expelled" on Youtube. Then search Youtube for Dr. Stephen C. Meyer debates.
Yeah, and then read the follow-up article in THE SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN. Be sure to follow the links.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/artic...u-to-know/
I like Scientific American, but whoever wrote that didn't do a very good job. Point #4 might have something to it, but the others are either irrelevant or don't appear to be completely accurate. For example, we know Darwin's work impacted the Holocaust, even though it was indirectly and not all the ideas were applied. I think it would be fair the say it was an "awful misinterpretation", but it just shows how information can be used an abused. As far as the scientists thinking they were filming for a different movie, I don't see why it would matter. If they say something they believe for one movie, why wouldn't those same statements be just as valid in something else? Unless it was assume they were supposed to be saying something they didn't believe, but did it for a fictional piece. The members in the auditorium are highly irrelevant. Even if every one of them was intentional, evaluation would be on what was being stated, and not the crowd, especially if it's in a video. The last two points are neither here nor there. No religion, including atheism, is a prerequisite to scientific study and the adherence to any of them doesn't require an interest in science.