Name: AahPandasRun 2004-12-30 18:41
ZOMG RANT ALERT
It sickens me how many people in this country don't believe in evolution. I heard a statistic that it's around half, but I doubt it's that many. Science is about rational thought and testable ideas and experiments. Rejecting the scientific theory of the origin of the human race is like not believing in friction, saying something like that it's god's will that things don't move infinitley. Even though most fundamental scientific principles are proved indirectly at first (like the spherical nature of the earth), when we are able to directly observe it, we are right because it has been tested indirectly so much. Religious extremists dismiss evidence like fossils as "tricks by god to test our faith" or something like that. I bet if someone took a born again christian or another religious extremist in a time machine back 65 million years ago, observed dinosaurs, and returned, they would still reject their direct observations as "hethanistic trickery" or something like that. Courts have ruled in some places that scientific arguments in favor of creationism can be taught in public schools, what will they have to show? This intelligent design theory they yammer about is nothing more than pseudoscience, and a lazy underestimation of the power and magnitude biodiversity, natural selection, and time can accomplish.
It sickens me how many people in this country don't believe in evolution. I heard a statistic that it's around half, but I doubt it's that many. Science is about rational thought and testable ideas and experiments. Rejecting the scientific theory of the origin of the human race is like not believing in friction, saying something like that it's god's will that things don't move infinitley. Even though most fundamental scientific principles are proved indirectly at first (like the spherical nature of the earth), when we are able to directly observe it, we are right because it has been tested indirectly so much. Religious extremists dismiss evidence like fossils as "tricks by god to test our faith" or something like that. I bet if someone took a born again christian or another religious extremist in a time machine back 65 million years ago, observed dinosaurs, and returned, they would still reject their direct observations as "hethanistic trickery" or something like that. Courts have ruled in some places that scientific arguments in favor of creationism can be taught in public schools, what will they have to show? This intelligent design theory they yammer about is nothing more than pseudoscience, and a lazy underestimation of the power and magnitude biodiversity, natural selection, and time can accomplish.