200 years after the birth of Charles Darwin, his theory of evolution still clashes
with the creationist beliefs of some organized religions.
He was unable to accept that an organisation
with creationist beliefs could prevent these views being reflected in the teaching in the school and in its other activities.
Not exact matches
I don't mean that church - related schools should hire only
creationists, I mean they should hire people who are sympathetic and informed about the different ways that Christians integrate
belief in God
with the findings of science.
I do all those things Nye believes
creationists are incapable of and I do them very well, thank you - and since I can function perfectly well in society
with my
beliefs intact, why do they really matter to Nye so much?
I also need to point out here, for those whose view of Christian
belief is as reductionist as
Creationists» views of science, that
Creationists, in fact, make up a vanishingly small portion of Christian beilevers worldwide, most of whom are perfectly comfortable
with the science of evolution.
It seems that for every discovery science has,
creationist have to come up
with an answer, instead of melding the 2
beliefs into 1.
When you use words like «intelligence» and «design» in discussing the patterns in nature, immediately you are tarred
with the same brush as
creationists, who have hijacked those terms to defend their religious
beliefs.
The fact you profess
with such gusto that you are a christian and a
creationist says that no matter how much evidence to the contrary of your
beliefs is made available (and there is already volumes of information) you will never accept truth b / c you have been engrained and programmed to believe one set of precepts and only that set.
Truly,
creationists will come up
with any outlandish theory to keep validating their
beliefs.
I have a problem
with people imposing their
beliefs on others and saying «this is the way it is and there is no other way»... I have a big problem
with creationists who go against science and the proof of evolution, but I also have a big problem
with people demanding that there is no God on people when it is yet to be proved, and will probably never be proved, that there is in fact, not a God.
Several speakers expressed concern about U.S. President Donald Trump's denial of climate change, Vice President Mike Pence's
creationist beliefs, and Trump's willingness to work
with prominent antivaccine activist Robert Kennedy Jr. «In the face of fanaticism and fear, science is regaining its ethical and political stance,» said Rosaura Ruiz Guitiérrez, director of the Faculty of Science at the National Autonomous University of Mexico here.
Every day brings fresh claims from the world of mainstream science, claims that must be weighed, then tortured to fit the framework of
creationist belief or discounted
with some sort of scientific - sounding explanation.