Interesting thread, and I'm looking forward to seeing this series. Currently on vacation in California though, so will check it out when I get back next week.
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Originally Posted by Displaced Flames fan
I've never heard of it or seen anything about it outside of this very messageboard!
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On the other hand I was taught it and raised to believe it since I was seven years old, and I'm from the less religious Canada! These groups do exist, and in some places they have quite a bit of power and influence. And while that one creation museum gets all the press, there are many similar ones out there that talk about the 6000 year old earth, there's even one in Alberta.
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Originally Posted by MelBridgeman
Guess what the reality is...for lack of a better term, the majority of people are simple...it would takes years of education to even start to understand the complexity of evolution and even that and 100+ years of research isnt going to give you all the answers to your questions on the subject, so it just a lot easier to believe in what you have been brought up with in most cases, which is pretty simple, a higher power is responsible for all this complexity, not chance! Even for the most educated person, it should be easy to see that...people are always looking for answers, not neccesarily the right one, but maybe the easiest to understand or accept...
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I tend to agree with this. I read an article recently that made a pretty good argument that most people that disbelieve evolution don't really do so on the basis of their faith, but more simply because evolution is counter-intuitive. It requires work to understand.
Of course anything that's worth knowing takes work to understand. And that just further illustrates the failing of the education system; they have to do a better job of teaching it. That the earth isn't flat used to be counter-intuitive, but it isn't anymore.
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and as much as i agree with richard dawkins that is the one thing he fails to understand, human nature...which makes his arguments so incredibly biased its not even funny, he doesnt even attempt to explain the hold that religion has on society and history...cause he doesnt understand it...he just calls it stupid ( i agee! But i understand it)..which IMO makes him look like an idiot.
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I don't think he fails to understand it at all, I think he does a good job of showing he does understand it in his books.. I don't think he has any patience for it though and he thinks we have to grow up and move past that human nature.
Anyway, sorry to drive-by the thread, back to the sun and fun for me
