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Joined: Jul 2007
Posts: 4
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The notion that evolution is weird as a theory and therefore incorrect is silly. No one even conceived of Relativity Theory before Einstein, and even today it is weird--yet nuclear power plants became possible only with the understandings it provided, and the sun and all stars operate in accord with it. And then Quantum Theory came along, and it was too weird for Einstein ! ! Meanwhile Newton's theory is adequate for many "everyday" uses. Yet although none of these theories provide a complete picture of the world, they do reveal some of the workings of nature; and allow us to make predictions and inventions that really work.
We may not like many results of applied science. And much of science study is so narrow as to be useless. Yet the methods make all technological progress possible.
But I will only be impressed by "Religious" folks objections to Evolutionary theories, when i see them forgoing the benefits of science--like using computers, driving cars, flying in airplanes, using telephones & radios, wearing clothes, using anesthetics, and so on, that they so totally take for granted that they have forgotten all sense of gratitude to those human beings (not God) (many of whom risked their lives, only to be persecuted by the church, like: Galileo Galilei) who came before them and devoted their lives to using their own minds to understand the world.
It makes sense to try and understand science--but frankly many scientists don't understand much science in fields other than their own. However they may have one advantage over the rest of us--they may have more practice in maintaining an open mind...
Strangely it seems it is mostly Christians and Islamic fundamentalists who object to things like Women's rights and "Evolution". The religions of the Orient, and the Native America Religions seem to be somewhat more free of this fear of ideas and social progress.
In any case in the 1950s no one in America would have believed that smoking would become illegal in many public places--or in the internet...Yet overall we are pretty much on track with 2 prophets of an earlier era: Huxley and Orwell. Privacy will soon be an ancient relic, and Prozac and and Ritalin are a fair match for Soma, to say nothing of the progress being made in clonning.
Before too long--say in the next 50 years--genetic treatment of many diseases will become a common place. And everyone who can afford it will take advantage of it regardless of "Religion", and regardless of what the underlying genetic science reveals about the history of life on earth. There is no rush, as there is no stopping time--you would have to go at the speed of light for that--which even fundamentalists can't do.
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