Entry requirement for creationists

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

The difference being that atheists do not routinely make blatantly incorrect statements regarding evolution, whereas creationists 'arguments' cannot exist without them.

For what it's worth, the reason most atheists accept evolution as a fact is because it IS a fact. The reasons creationists reject evolution is because they don't understand it.

Boru

I assume that you're saying this because you know everything about the evolutionary process - even more than respected scientists. Though I've studied the same stuff about evolution in school that most of us have, I've read enough to keep an open mind at this time.

Of course I don't know everything about the evolutionary process - no one does. But the fact that these 'respected scientists' you mention are in overwhelmingly broad agreement about the reality of evolution and how it works is sufficient reason for people to accept it as fact.

What creationists do is to look that the work of - quite literally - tens of thousands of biologists dating back to well before Darwin published and decide, 'Sorry, that isn't good enough. I know more than they all seem to, so I'm free to reject biological evolution.' This is a degree of intellectual perversity that I find hard to fathom.

Do you also keep an open mind as to whether nuclear fission is a fact? If you do, you must know more than 'respected scientists' who collaborated in the destruction of two Japanese cities.

About which other scientific realities is your mind open? Electric currents? Gravity? Orbital mechanics? The propagation of light waves? Evolution is on as firm a footing as any of these, for two reasons: 1) it has been observed; 2) nothing in biology makes sense without it.

There's nowt wrong with keeping an open mind about issues that are in doubt. But if your mind is so open that you think basic biological evolution and all that it entails is anything but a brute fact, then your mind is so open that your brain is in very real danger of falling out.

Boru