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Originally Posted by Rathji
I do think that the evolution theory as it is commonly understood is not complete, and I think we have a long way to go about understanding it to the point where we can claim it as fact.
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This sounds like "I don't know what is wrong with the theory of evolution, but there must be something because it disagrees with how I'd like the world to work."
Doubt is a good thing, but used selectively it is just another way to close the mind by doubting only that which challenges one's convictions. That isn't intellectual freedom, that is being ruled by indoctrination. Freedom is where you put a different interpretation upon facts, not where they are rejected as being suspect because they don't fit into a pre-existing interpretation you've inherited from whatever authority guides your thinking.
There is a superficially modern idea that one's "opinion" is as valid as anyone else's even when it is directly contradicted by fact. This is evil and needs to be vigorously opposed. If your opinion is based on what you believe as opposed to what is known to be true, you aren't "different" or "steadfast" or "alternative" or "pious", you are just... wrong.