Re: Creationism is a falsified scientific theory

in article 1155604284.822693.10330@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, RAM at
rmathers@xxxxxxxxxx wrote on 8/14/06 6:11 PM:

George Evans wrote:

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Amen. I am a liberal on most of the issues you brought up, too. OTOH,
throwing everything biblical out with the bath water is not the answer. A lot
of what's right with western culture came from religion, too--like
institutionalized charity which is based on the biblical idea of grace.

I am in no way suggesting that one throw out the Bible or the eleemosynary
tradition that it promulgated. I am saying in no uncertain terms that
creationism is a religious distraction and unsupported by science. On the
religious level it promotes an anti-science ethos and distracts from a
meaningful/vibrant religious theology that meets the demands of the third
millennium. On the scientific level it is fraught with distortions, moral
equivocations, and out-right lies. It has no scientific value even as an
example of pseudo-science. We have plenty of them historically and
contemporarily. Creationism is a major energy consuming distraction that has
to be dealt with and held a bay (it should recalled that it was positively
portrayed on the Texas Republican platform in 2000 and 2004, with the
recommendation that it be taught in public schools). What needs to be done is
for OEC to insist that it be contained within the fundamentalist religious
tradition and not promoted for public consumption because of its corrosive
social, religious and political effects. They will then be able to retreat
into a victimhood status and feel morally superior while still holding onto
publicly politically incorrect beliefs.

You have misidentified the villain. It is fundamentalism. Creationism is
still viable. It is not "unsupported by science". It is in second place. It
saddens me that rabid fundamentalist behaviors are associated with it.

George Evans

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