RE: Religious indoctrination of children
March 17, 2012 at 12:50 pm
(This post was last modified: March 17, 2012 at 1:21 pm by Cyberman.)
(March 17, 2012 at 1:12 am)Godschild Wrote:(March 15, 2012 at 6:49 am)Stimbo Wrote: Except for the fact that evolution isn't false science (nor a religion neither, before anyone dumps that particularly noxious little turd into the pool). Otherwise you might have a point.
Seems a bit strange you would say such a thing, there are evolutionist who have said that it's a religion, and the creation view can not be allowed to be examined because it is not a part of this religion. My on words on what has been stated. So I do have a point.
Even if there are people, including 'evolutionists', claiming that evolution is a religion, that still does not change the plain and simple fact that it simply is not. I could sit here until the cows come home claiming that the Moon is really a giant eyeball watching everything we get up to here on Earth. I might even be able to find someone to back me up, the internet does after all have some pretty peculiar dimensions. None of it changes the reality, viz the Moon is not an eyeball.
Evolution would be a damn strange religion. It has no deities, no prophets, no ceremonies, no tax breaks, essentially it lacks just about everything that would be recognised as characteristic of a religion; and any part of it that might be so regarded depends on a definition of religion so loose as to encompass subjects as diverse as sports, science fiction and stamp collecting.
As for the creation view, either there is nothing tangible that can actually be examined or else what is presented can be dismissed as irrelevant, misrepresented, or outright lies. If creationists actually had something, anything, to support their case, it and they would be taken seriously in a scientific context. Instead, they trot out nothing but half-baked conspiracy theories and misleading mumbo-jumbo in an attempt to sell snakeoil to the credulous.
But just for the moment let's entertain the notion that evolution is indeed a religion. Which part would be the religious aspect? The observed fact of evolution in nature, perhaps? Or would it be the theory, the model which, with its mass of supporting and mutually-corroborating evidence, supplies a mechanism for the natural phenomenon? Please, give the history and status of evolution as you see it. I would really be interested in that, as I'm sure we all would.
ETA: Also, why evolution specifically, as opposed to any of the other hundreds of theories in the scientific arena? Are they [u]all[/i] religions?
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
