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[Perham1]

I am not all that impressed with the UN-L study.

Mainly because I don't equate church attendance as the sole, or perhaps even main, criterion of being religious. There are a lot of mega churches that are more pop-psychology, feel-good, self-help (Lakewood in Houston, e.g.) centers than they are churches. People attend those places not to hear the word of God, or Jesus, so much as to engage and bask in the current Dr. Phil- type of mass therapy.

 

[ShinerTX]

Perham, I'm shocked. See the OP.

 

[LongJohn]

Belief in the theory of evolution requires as much "faith" as is claimed of those who believe in God. There is complete faith, and actually hope by non-believers, that the right mutations and permutations accidentally and coincidentally happened throughout the ages to bring non-living matter into single celled life then into a proliferation of vastly different species, from the tiniest insect to the largest mammal. That's a lot of faith!

Micro-evolution has been demonstrated; i.e. changes WITHIN a species (birds beaks harden or soften depending on environment), but macro-evolution; changing from one species to another, is purely theoretical and speculative yet put forth as "fact" by those who can't or don't want to conceive of something beyond the natural realm.

And then there's that old problem of the beginning of life itself. Today we have the most advanced scientists and technology that ever existed on the planet yet we cannot create life as simple as a blade of grass. But we are to believe that life magically blossomed in the hostile environment of the primordial earth?

The natural world is chaotic, not orderly, but non-believers would have you think that the incredible order and sophistication of the human body, the planet, and the universe is the result of chaotic chance when the probabilities of that are scientifically and mathematically zero.

I could go on but nothing will cause those like Perham to relinquish their "faith" or even allow for other possibilities.

Carry on.

 

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[Dionysus]

Personally, I think Dr Tyson is one of the best things going. He may be the most effective voice in the country right now for promoting scientific literacy and how we have come to understand so much about our world and the cosmos. I like the guy a lot.