Tuesday, March 14, 2006
Common Sense Found In England
Creationist theories about how the world was made are to be debated in GCSE science lessons in mainstream secondary schools in England.What do they know that we don't?
OH and while we are on the topic, ran into this piece at SciAm
15 Answers to Creationist Nonsense
It's from 2002 and most of it is really old hat. It's in the form of a point/counter-point and I must point out just one thing - the concluding paragraph
Time and again, science has shown that methodological naturalism can push back ignorance, finding increasingly detailed and informative answers to mysteries that once seemed impenetrable: the nature of light, the causes of disease, how the brain works. Evolution is doing the same with the riddle of how the living world took shape. Creationism, by any name, adds nothing of intellectual value to the effort.Note what's important here, at the conclusion of page after page of minimalist data, suppositional assertions, and and a whole bunch of "will someday's"what the author chooses to hold onto is the philosphical underpinnings of naturalism and to reject the idea of a Creator prima facie.
When I read stuff like this I become increasingly concerned that "the battle between religion and science" is not an intellectual one, but a truly spiritual one. It continues to make me wonder if we need to worry less about ideas and shift the battleground to its true spiritual turf where we have an undeniable advantage?
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