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What you're seeing is US Southern Protestant fundamentalism: an evolutionary dead end (is that why they deny evolution?), which would never have come into being
by clock_tower 10y ago
What you're seeing is US Southern Protestant fundamentalism: an evolutionary dead end (is that why they deny evolution?), which would never have come into being in the first place were it not for Henry VIII, William Cecil, and John Knox -- and Cardinal Richelieu taking the Protestant side in the Thirty Years' War.
Look at a more serious religion, and you'll see better results: Scholastic Catholicism, or the Mu'tazili and Ash'ari schools of Islam, or almost any form of Buddhism.
- flukus 10y agoCatholics reject evolution too: http://www.catholic.com/tracts/adam-eve-and-evolution http://www.catholic.com/tracts/adam-eve-and-evolution Catholic doctrine is to deny random mutation (god is twiddling bits manually) and insist adam and eve were real. That along with a host of other silly stuff the believe (virgin birth).
- throwaway1892 10y agoWell, that page states "Church does not have an official position on whether various life forms developed over the course of time." And for Adam & Eve : "[The Church] allows for the possibility that man’s body developed from previous biological forms" So it's not the case.