Evolution: U.S. Lags Behind Europe, Japan in Acceptance
I find something very interesting about this article: it is pro-evolution all the way. Just read through it and see if you can't pick up on the hint that the U.S. should get with it. Heck, just read the title to get a glimpse of the message it is sending: "U.S. Lags Behind Europe, Japan in Acceptance of Evolution". Lags behind, as though we poor, stupid Americans need to catch up because we're being left behind in cultural progress .
So what? Europe has become almost completely secular (don't believe it, ask a couple of my British friends, Peter Glover and Michael Iliff). I love Europe, but why is becoming completely secularized considered a good thing? You know, if a train is heading towards a cliff with the bridge washed out, lagging behind ain't such a bad thing, now is it?
So most of us aren't buying the line that all that we see around us happened by chance. We're not giving in to the foolishness that tells us that intricate complexity (exponentially greater than that involved in the most advanced example of nano technology) came from mindless chaos/disorder and chance. Wow, imagine the fact that we're not accepting that.
It's like believing the airplane evolved into what we see today without an inventor because we've never met Wright brothers and refuse to believe they ever existed. Boy, wouldn't we be intelligent? "Hey, Stupid, you're lagging behind. Don't you know Europe and Japan have given up on the idea of an aeroplane inventor. Sheesh...it's all about progress, man! Get on the bandwagon!" That's the kind of thing we're being called ignorant over because we're not buying a strikingly similar argument. No, no...after all, it's not because we've used our brains but because we're all "fundamentalist":
It is true that there will always be those who fall for the foolishness of Darwinian evolution, but don't buy the line that says we're not progressive enough because we refuse to be bullied into belief by the scientific elite who are just as religious as the rest of us but refuse to admit their own hypocrisy. "The evidence shows that the world evolved." No it doesn't! It shows that there has been evolution...things change...big deal, but don't give me that load of dung that takes the next step and has it "proving" we are all from the same primordial soup kitchen.
These people are taking certain evidence and accepting the evolutionary hypothesis on blind faith, closing their amazingly complex eyes to the unbelievable unlikelihood that there could be even a fraction of the complex systems in the world today through evolution. They close their eyes to it and then point an accusatory finger at the rest of us for being blind!
I'm not a betting man, but if I were I would put my money on the most likely scenario: it's a heckuvalot easier to believe in a creator whom I cannot see than blind, stupid, and impersonal chance...which can't be seen either.
So what? Europe has become almost completely secular (don't believe it, ask a couple of my British friends, Peter Glover and Michael Iliff). I love Europe, but why is becoming completely secularized considered a good thing? You know, if a train is heading towards a cliff with the bridge washed out, lagging behind ain't such a bad thing, now is it?
So most of us aren't buying the line that all that we see around us happened by chance. We're not giving in to the foolishness that tells us that intricate complexity (exponentially greater than that involved in the most advanced example of nano technology) came from mindless chaos/disorder and chance. Wow, imagine the fact that we're not accepting that.
It's like believing the airplane evolved into what we see today without an inventor because we've never met Wright brothers and refuse to believe they ever existed. Boy, wouldn't we be intelligent? "Hey, Stupid, you're lagging behind. Don't you know Europe and Japan have given up on the idea of an aeroplane inventor. Sheesh...it's all about progress, man! Get on the bandwagon!" That's the kind of thing we're being called ignorant over because we're not buying a strikingly similar argument. No, no...after all, it's not because we've used our brains but because we're all "fundamentalist":
"American Protestantism is more fundamentalist than anybody except perhaps the Islamic fundamentalists, which is why Turkey and we are so close," said study co-author Jon Miller of Michigan State University.Translation: American protestants are to be categorized with Muslim extremism and, thus, written off as non-thinking radicals (and what kind of image is he trying to create? Now, certainly he's not trying to sway the argument with that blatant ad hominem is he?). Again, we see weak arguments being undergirded by rhetorical gimmicks and fallacies designed to make anybody who may be doubtful of evolution feel foolish for playing with the whacko radical Right extremists. That may work for some, but it still doesn't make the arguments themselves any more convincing.
It is true that there will always be those who fall for the foolishness of Darwinian evolution, but don't buy the line that says we're not progressive enough because we refuse to be bullied into belief by the scientific elite who are just as religious as the rest of us but refuse to admit their own hypocrisy. "The evidence shows that the world evolved." No it doesn't! It shows that there has been evolution...things change...big deal, but don't give me that load of dung that takes the next step and has it "proving" we are all from the same primordial soup kitchen.
These people are taking certain evidence and accepting the evolutionary hypothesis on blind faith, closing their amazingly complex eyes to the unbelievable unlikelihood that there could be even a fraction of the complex systems in the world today through evolution. They close their eyes to it and then point an accusatory finger at the rest of us for being blind!
I'm not a betting man, but if I were I would put my money on the most likely scenario: it's a heckuvalot easier to believe in a creator whom I cannot see than blind, stupid, and impersonal chance...which can't be seen either.
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posted by DAVID C. PRICE at 8/14/2006 06:40:00 AM
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