Religion vs Science
My favorite Creationist argument is that evolution is only a theory. Gravity is just a theory too. I’d like to hear them question that. Perhaps it can be proven wrong by jumping from the second story window.
A long time ago science started contradicting the Bible, which many viewed as an assault on their religion. The problem is that religious belief, based on faith in a book and it’s interpretation (dependent on what doctrine is followed) is held as equal to, or greater than, scientific theory, which is based on the interpretation of irrefutable fact, tested and retested, proven time and again.
This form of “religious persecution” is fueled by the baffling idea that scientists, doctors and other people “smarter” than me are doing things to make me feel stupid. They keep explaining things and I don’t understand. This is obviously an act of aggression, and since the Nazi’s were aggressive the correlation is obvious. This is being done in violation of some sort of right to high self esteem which I’m pretty sure is in the Constitution, or at least the founding fathers intended to add it, and that is just as good as being in there. And, I might add, I am very smart for having figured it all out and exposing it. Take that, science.
The assumption of knowledge based on belief, combined with the unwavering faith that my religion will send ME to heaven and THEM to hell, has led to a need to change definitions. Facts are now “my personal experience” and little other proof is required. Add to that an utter lack of, in fact disdain for , intellectual curiosity, and you have a very deep, profound, and impenetrable brand of ignorance. One which gains momentum in each classroom that teaches creationism alongside evolution.
For those of you with children, God help you, The world these people will create is going to make Medieval Europe look like the height of enlightened thought.
And what a coincidence….. look who had the power then.
In closing, here’s a quote from a man who makes me feel like a total dummy. Therefore, of course, he is wrong.
“The most beautiful and most profound experience is the sensation of the mystical. It is the sower of all true science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their primitive forms – this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness.”
( Albert Einstein – The Merging of Spirit and Science)