RE: Teaching Evolution in OK
February 24, 2012 at 2:10 pm
(This post was last modified: February 24, 2012 at 2:49 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(February 24, 2012 at 2:01 pm)Phil Wrote:(February 24, 2012 at 1:51 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote: I wasn't expecting this thread to start getting the slightest bit heated. I think it's ridiculous to hold religious views in the face of science, but clearly some people do. It leads to massive cognitive dissonance, but everyone is susceptible to that.
Science doesn't provide you with a moral guideline to life. Some people choose to associate with a religion because they feel religion does. Its when they move it to the realm of "reality" that pisses me off.
Correct. Fundamentalism is the problem not religious faith. Nobody is saying faith is logical, reasonable or scientific. Faith is still a dumb belief but it isn't threatened by science. Some people though seem to be unable to differentiate between religious faith and full blown fundamentalist idiocy.
So long as one retains belief in any aspect that uniquely distinguishes one's religion, the difference between religious faith and fundamentalism is just a difference of capriciously delineated degree, without a fundamental distinction.
