Scientific Creationism
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Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Science & Math, Christian Books & Bibles, Engineering & Transportation
Book Type: Paperback
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Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Science & Math, Christian Books & Bibles, Engineering & Transportation
Book Type: Paperback
Mike S. (mikesmith) reviewed on + 50 more book reviews
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS "SCIENTIFIC CREATIONISM." What's scientific about starting out with a conviction and then tortuously distorting and misrepresenting all available data to support that conviction? The Grand Canyon, for example, shows a fossil record going back millions of years, with more complex fossils at the top, where more recent fossils should be, and increasingly simpler fossils all the way down, in sedimentary strata that required millions and millions of years to form, but Young Earth Creationists (i. e. I.D. proponents) already have the idea that God made everything in a week several thousand years ago, so all that data has to be ignored to support to science.
Let's see, they say, all the available (and painfully obvious) data doesn't at all support our "hypothesis," so let's, ah, SCIENCE SCIENCE SCIENCE SCIENCING, whoa, look what we scienced! It was a flood that just too 40 days several thousand years ago, and all the fossils and geological strata sorted themselves out when the floodwaters settled! Amazing! God, we're such great scientists! Why doesn't the whole world agree with our conclusions? Why do other "real," scientists "with actual degrees" "who actually submit their findings to peer-reviewed journals" collectively think we're such a joke?! Don't they see our amazing work?
If you really want or need religion in your life, there have got to be some saner ways to accommodate both faith and reason--but this sort of nonsense--Ben, Kirk, Ray, Henry, Ken, and all'y'all fundamentalists with an idea that's so true it can't even bear honestly questioning it--this sort of thing just marginalizes your beliefs even further, just makes them all the more ridiculous. As I told one Creationist who chose to get into this subject with me at a party, you obviously care a great deal about your Christian message, so why make it so inaccessible by selling it along with a necessary rejection of all science and rationality? I mean, I'm almost certainly not going to join whatever church you have anyway, but at least you wouldn't look like such a fool. This stuff is for chumps and apologists only, not for thinking people, and not for people who are honest.
Let's see, they say, all the available (and painfully obvious) data doesn't at all support our "hypothesis," so let's, ah, SCIENCE SCIENCE SCIENCE SCIENCING, whoa, look what we scienced! It was a flood that just too 40 days several thousand years ago, and all the fossils and geological strata sorted themselves out when the floodwaters settled! Amazing! God, we're such great scientists! Why doesn't the whole world agree with our conclusions? Why do other "real," scientists "with actual degrees" "who actually submit their findings to peer-reviewed journals" collectively think we're such a joke?! Don't they see our amazing work?
If you really want or need religion in your life, there have got to be some saner ways to accommodate both faith and reason--but this sort of nonsense--Ben, Kirk, Ray, Henry, Ken, and all'y'all fundamentalists with an idea that's so true it can't even bear honestly questioning it--this sort of thing just marginalizes your beliefs even further, just makes them all the more ridiculous. As I told one Creationist who chose to get into this subject with me at a party, you obviously care a great deal about your Christian message, so why make it so inaccessible by selling it along with a necessary rejection of all science and rationality? I mean, I'm almost certainly not going to join whatever church you have anyway, but at least you wouldn't look like such a fool. This stuff is for chumps and apologists only, not for thinking people, and not for people who are honest.
