The gap between faith and science appears for some people a simple crevice, something that can be stepped across or at least spanned. For others, it seems a continental divide with someone always trying to whip the ocean separating them into a tsunami. For example, biologist Richard Dawkins has called religion ‘an accidental by-product – a misfiring of something useful.’ Dawkins wrote the best-selling ‘The God Delusion’ in 2006. On the other hand, this week Christian ‘creationist’ Ken Ham, founder of Answers in Genesis, said American Christians are losing the cultural war because they now believe in the ‘pagan religion’ of evolution. Answers in Genesis operates the $27 million Creation Museum in Kentucky, which counters evolutionary theory and calls the Bible the ‘true history book of the universe.’ Since opening in May 2007, it has had more than 900,000 visitors. A nonprofit in Montgomery, Apologetics Press, holds to strict Bible teaching similar to Answers in Genesis. Apologetics Press publishes books, articles and other materials on creationism and presents conferences. Its leaders believe God made the universe in six 24-hour days and the earth is not billions of years old. ‘If someone does not […]
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
Great Divide Separates Creationists, Evolutionists
Author: MELANIE B. SMITH
Source: Decatur Daily (Tennessee)
Publication Date: 2/19/2010
Link: Great Divide Separates Creationists, Evolutionists
Source: Decatur Daily (Tennessee)
Publication Date: 2/19/2010
Link: Great Divide Separates Creationists, Evolutionists
Stephan: This is reality in America, perhaps not your reality, but reality for about half the population. People who accept the science of evolution don't feel the need to talk about it much, except for mainstream clerics who feel under attack, by the fundamentalists, as the fundamentalists feel they are being persecuted for their 'Christian' convictions. For them science is nothing more than a belief.
For about half of us science and evolution seem self-evident based on thousands of research studies. But for Creationist this is an active conversation. In a great many America homes and churches, to a point of obsession in which membership in the group is measured by this belief, people talk about this, and tell you why science cannot be right because its findings contradict the Bible. This is the psychology of willful ignorance, and I note the term is catching on.
