Future of Christianity in US

[FatAndFaithless]

I really don't think it's that hard to understand. There are countless easy-to-understand explanations out there. Out of curiosity, is your sister a member of a religious denomination that doesn't accept evolution?


I'm not sure how one can be suspicious abotu "macroevolution" when it's not a real scientific term.

My sister grew-up as an Episcopalian and now she is a Lutheran. I think she believes that evolution happened with God's help instead of totally trial and error. She got her BS in biology from MIT, so she is very smart (IMO). I think she simply has never been very interested in evolution. She worked on genetic engineering for a while, so she should be far better equipped than me to understand evolution if she tried.

Well..ignoring the part where you said evolution is "trial and error"...

It's rather shocking to see someone with a biology degree from such a good university not really care about or understand evolution. I'd be interested to know if she went to MIT with her pre-drawn conclusions about evolution (from her church most likely). There are a handful of PhD-carrying "scientists" who don't accept evolution, but when pressed on the fact, it usually boils down to either:
1) Complete misunderstanding of what evolution actually is. (From which the non-terms macro and microevolution spring)
2) An honest (thought intellectually dishonest) statement of faith, in which they had entered the field already accepting the word of their bible or church as true, and that any information to the contrary is simply dumped into the rubbish bin of cognitive dissonance.
or 3) Utterly dishonest representation of evolution, usually entailing attachments of morality or philosophy (sometimes with the obligatory Hitler reference) thrown in.