Comments on: HuffPo Religion and Science: the stupidest thing I’ve read on the internet all morning

By: mercurianferret

mercurianferret — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 18:50:35 +0000

Having grown up around Asia, I am always tempted to take on fundamentalist Christians not on their arguments against evolution, but rather with competing religious Truths from other places in the world. I imagine pummeling them with the Truth that all of existence is merely a dream of Brahma, including their faith in a Christian God, or something.

Once you shatter their belief in their paltry little dreamed up god, you might be able to work on evolution.

Or entrench the fundies even further.

By: qzl

qzl — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 04:44:48 +0000

I’ve never been comfortable with the concept of believing “in” something. I’d much rather believe “that” something. When someone says they believe “in” something it seems to mean that they believe that:
– it exists
– it is “good”
– i have chosen this belief on no evidence, but will defend it to death
– if you don’t believe “in” it you are bad

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 02:29:44 +0000

Russell: I assure you that my colleagues in anthropology have provided ample opportunity for embarrassment at levels far exceeding those represented in the present discussion!

By: Charles Evo

Charles Evo — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 02:26:30 +0000

It seems that Knick has confused Darwin with Heraclitus.

By: Bill James

Bill James — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 02:21:43 +0000

"Why should it be so hard to believe that biological change over time is also God's process, God's creation? God is the source, the "author and finisher," of all life, and He used and is still using the processes of change to achieve His plan and purpose: biological change as well as spiritual change."

So the beatings will continue, until morale improves.

By: Dan J

Dan J — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 01:42:16 +0000

Education for the fundies has its place, but I prefer scorn, derision, ridicule, and marginalization. They’re much more fun.

By: Tony Sidaway

Tony Sidaway — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 22:09:04 +0000

People are still trying to educate the fundies, but the obvious way to do that is to teach evolution as part of biology in school, with proper teachers and no nonsense. They fight against that like wildcats. It doesn’t take a genius to work out why.

By: Russell

Russell — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 21:35:24 +0000

No doubt, Laden is feeling some degree of collegial embarrassment: Knick has his Ph.D. in anthropology. 😉

By: Phillip IV

Phillip IV — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 20:24:53 +0000

If we strip evolution of all the baggage added to it by detractors and adherents, it is a very simple philosophical idea: Things Change.

A bizarre oversimplification – and the real sad thing is, he has nevertheless already lost the fundies at that very point. They don’t believe in change – on any of several levels.

By: Birger Johansson

Birger Johansson — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 19:50:43 +0000

I am in two minds about this. On one hand, I want to cut the Knick fellow some slack, since he wants to drag the fundies closer towards, if not twenty-first century thinking, at least the nineteenth century level of understanding.
On the other hand, wrong is wrong.