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I don't see how it couldn't be the key factor. At my undergrad, there would be after hours "talks" by religious leaders about the foolishness of plate tectonic
by jvanderbot 4y ago
I don't see how it couldn't be the key factor.
At my undergrad, there would be after hours "talks" by religious leaders about the foolishness of plate tectonics, the fallacy of radiocarbon dating, etc etc. At least for hardcore Bible literalists, believing that the world is older than X generations (with the lineage spelled out in the old testament) is to believe that the Bible is false, and therefore their whole religion is disproved. My family was raised this way too.
- WFHRenaissance 4y agoCatholics believe in evolution.
- TeMPOraL 4y agoYes, and the Christian denomination (or at least what they'd like to consider themselves as) I was raised in would point at Catholic Church and laugh at its spiritual weakness, seeing acceptance of evolution as a compromise in both senses of the word.
- WFHRenaissance 4y agoSounds like a skill issue on their part.
- gjsman-1000 4y agoIt is optional though and not endorsed - more like has not been clearly denounced. Even then the publication used for permitting believing it advises caution.
- yarpen_z 4y agoI wouldn't use "believe" in the context. Catholic church does not specifically endorse evolution, but it finds no conflict between scientific concept of evolution and its teachings. I would call it "acceptance". Many small Pentecostal and evangelical churches gain a lot of media attention thanks to their conservatism, fundamentalism and obscure views. Fortunately, they do not constitute the majority of Christians worldwide (at least not yet).
- Scarblac 4y agoCatholics aren't hardcore Bible literalists.
- frontman1988 4y agoThe very fact life is billions of years old and all these religous texts don't even mention about it even once or the fact that dinousaurs existed for hundreds of millions of years really makes a lot of organized religions look like fools. Anyone who reads about evolution will realize that we are not special, our species is not special and god's son being a human is just a narcisstic idea ignorant people came up with 2000 years ago.
- danaris 4y ago> The very fact life is billions of years old and all these religous texts don't even mention about it even once or the fact that dinousaurs existed for hundreds of millions of years really makes a lot of organized religions look like fools. That is only true if you accept the idea of Biblical (or, more generally, textual) literalism, which is largely a feature of a subset of Evangelical Protestant sects in America starting in the mid-to-late 19th century. For thousands of years prior to that, pretty much everyone was perfectly content understanding that these were stories to inform our understanding, some of them pure myth, some allegory, some depicting historical events (often with embellishments of one sort or another).
- jvanderbot 4y agoSure, but technically speaking, a god could have created the universe, as is, while you were reading this sentence. It would appear, and you would know, that the universe is billions of years old, yet it would not be. There's no contradiction once you assume an all powerful creator. That's why logic won't win these discussions.
- ben_w 4y agoMy favourite variation of this is that the universe only comes into existence a week after you read this message, as the Creator made you with memories of reading this and me with memories of writing it.