(April 12, 2014 at 7:04 am)Tonus Wrote:(April 11, 2014 at 11:36 pm)Deidre32 Wrote: Understand. But, why is it essential for Christians to perpetuate this myth that evolution is a falsehood?Because it's what they are taught and they are certain that it makes no sense, and that the only way that anyone else believes it is because they are ignorant or mislead. Anytime I see the arguments against evolution I can easily see my former self making them and finding zero objections among my religious colleagues of any faith. That it seems to be such a universal attitude among people of varying faiths and denominations makes it that much more of a certainty for them.
It may be one of the most effective bubbles I've ever experienced from the inside and seen from the outside. Lacking (or simply not accepting) the understanding of evolution works and how time scales factor in makes the idea of macro-evolution easy to dismiss and extremely difficult to even consider.
Always having been on the outside it seems mind-boggling to me that people are really unable to see the blatant dishonesty of creationism. Every single one of the prominent creation dope-pushers is a shameless liar and obviously so.
As Aron Ra has said many time, to paraphrase, that there comes a time in a creationists' education and life experience when they are faced with the question-- "Do you want to be a creationist or do you want to be honest?"
I suspect that those who remain creationists after that point of education and knowledge just really don't care about whether something is true or false. The doctrine must come first no matter what.
A mind is a terrible thing to waste -- don't pollute it with bullshit.
