occurring at the push of a few buttons. The same knowledge that brought us vaccines has also offered us biological warfare. It is easy to see how some people could think mankind’ s search for knowledge is something to be feared or fought against. The problem here, however, is not a rationally-based issue, but rather an issue drawn from how knowledge has dismissed God and shown the supposed“ truth”: religions have offered, at best, myth, and, at worst, falsehoods.
For the evangelical and fundamentalist Christians, this is an untenable position to be in, because it becomes difficult to keep the pews full when you cannot offer people a logical reason for the need of Jesus as a supposed savior; as a result, we have seen the insanity which is“ creationism” popping up like an uncontrollable weed. These ideas of biblical literalism and creationism are invading the governments of many countries, their schools, and most-assuredly their homes. The main premise is that science and academia are at odds with Christianity, and that only those, who take this route of literal interpretation, are true Scotsmen.
Caution! I am about to“ offend” some people( unfortunately, there is not a nice way to go about saying this): If you believe the book of Genesis from the Bible offers a literal account of how life arose on Earth, you are an imbecile. Frankly, it is no different than someone believing the Prometheus tale as literal truth and that all of science that disagrees with that assertion is the product of a demonic deceiver.
Tossing Out a Life Raft
There is no hope for“ creationism”. It was dead before it ever got going; unfortunately no one involved in this pseudoscience has come to understand this yet. While the vast majority of those who watched the recent debate between creationist, Ken Ham, and engineer, Bill Nye, have stated that creationism failed to show itself to be a viable scientific proposal, there remain a great many who thought it somehow a victory for creationism. Despite the vast array of television shows that provide knowledge of the universe, history, archaeology, etc., these same people, who believe in a 6- to 10-thousand-year-old Earth, tend to also be the same people turning Honey Boo Boo and Duck Dynasty into top-rated shows. A great many of these people are adults, who were poorly educated; or, due to growing up in
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