inter faith

[percival]

It's all nice and easy to be an inter faith enthusiast when you talk to moderate Christians, Buddhists, Taoists,
etc. - but whenever I encounter a specific sub group of Evangelical Christians, namely the one illustrated by the
Creation Science Fair,
I can't suppress a strong urge to retch. (I found the URL in sff_corgi's journal.)

I've nothing against fundamentalist or evangelical Christianity - but if science is twisted in line to support a world view that is often diametrically opposed to my ethics, that crosses the line.

For example, I can accept the argument that women should stay at home to look after their children because the children will benefit. But I will never accept an "argument" that takes women's lower pay to be a justification for excluding women from the work place.

As for the demonstration of the difference between Uncle Steve and a monkey, and the experiment to create life from inanimate substances - oh please. That just goes against the grain of scientific method - and demonstrates no grasp even of the popular scientific literature. (Notice how I suppressed a SNARXY comment about Uncle Steve.)

That said, I could probably live with my children adopting these views - or living with somebody that has these views. I'd just hope they'd snap out of it again ;)

Comments

[jennlee2.livejournal.com]

I think the evolution "from" apes thing is a bit of a misnomer. The evidence points to both species evolving from earlier species which evolved from earlier species which at some point a long time ago were the same, so it's more like apes are cousins instead of grandparents.

I do think humans are still evolving, we just can't see it as well because we only have a small time-frame in which we look. And as you noted, we value human life more, and this likely has an effect in terms of natural selection.

Thanks for the most interesting topic this morning!

[drakanjel.livejournal.com]

That humans may indeed be evolving, yet with a smaller point of reference, is an interesting idea. Could this explain the difference in the lifespan of generally healthy humans being significantly longer now than it was, say, two hundred (or more) years ago? Even those who do not use conventional medicine tend to live longer than they would have in other times.... (and those who do not use ANY "modern" technology - i.e. the Amish)