(May 5, 2014 at 11:02 am)Revelation777 Wrote:(May 4, 2014 at 11:50 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: Yep. It's a transparent one and extremely dishonest.
Part of the problem is that there is a pressure in the scientific community to fall in line with evolution or jeopardize your credibility, lose your funding, and be ostracized.
There's a Nobel Prize waiting for any biologist who 'falls out of line' with evolution if they can show good evidence for doing so. But teaching creationism or ID in a biology class is akin to teaching astrology in astronomy class: it's not just wrong, it's a dereliciton of a teacher of science's duty to teach actual science. Professors can believe whatever they want, but if they're teaching science, they have to teach actual science, not some crap pseudo science that has never, ever, been useful in making a successful prediction that wasn't already predicted by evolution. ID isn't science, it is merely parasitic on science.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.