Bill Nye The Science Guy had some choice words for Congressman Paul Broun

[Beau Stockard]

Congressman Paul Broun called evolution a lie from the "Pit of Hell" and claimed the earth is only 9000 years old. The kicker? He sits with Todd Akin on the House Science Committee.

[Josef]

I'm not going to get into the old evolution vs. creationism debate, but with all the evidence out there supporting evolution, it's kind of hard to disregard it. So why do the creationists do just that?

[Beau Stockard]

So why do the creationists do just that?

Obstructionist politics,Josef. Paradigm change scares these people who have walled themselves up in an absolute faith that eventually will crash from too many anomalies --when it does these same absolutist creationists will either shift to new set of beliefs or go crazy.

[hockey]

I thought FAITH was defined as "a belief that does not rest on logical proof or material evidence". Faith.... is never absolute, by definition it leaves room for questioning, wonder, discovery, and doubt.

Anyhow....
Bill Nye has been seriously upset about creationism vs evolution for a while now....


One thing that makes me completely batty is when I see a child who claims to be of a certain religion. I want to say... "no, you are a child of "insert religion here" parents". Children are incapable of understanding religions and all their complexities. Children should be exempt from any religious label... they can only be children of x religion.

Everyone should be allowed to choose their own beliefs as they learn and grow to adulthood, it makes me sad when one way, one belief is forced on a naïve mind. Then they grow up too afraid to question their forced religion and are then left not understanding a lot (nature, history, space, geology, anthropology, chemistry, tolerance, acceptance, free thinking, etc) because their minds are shut and sealed. It's as if their futures/end are already written.

Bill Nye pleads with parents, in the above video, to not force their rigid beliefs on their children so that future generations have the ability to question, learn, search, discover.... keeping their minds open so they can be filled with knowledge. The future needs them... science is the future for this planet.

It bothers me that a human be perfectly and inconsolably convinced in just one set of .... I don't know..... rules? reason for living? way of life? It seems to me that they have given up on everything that life is.

Isn't part of being a human our ability to question, wonder, solve, search, believe, discover, learn, adapt, grow, to be amazed? Life is supposed to be a mystery and if you give up then there is nothing to solve, nothing left to do. Wouldn't such a persons "life journey", to all intents, constructions, and purposes..... be decided? What is there left to do with the rest of their days? Knit?

(I should note that I am a person with FAITH... I am not a person with organized religion. My version of faith leaves plenty of margin for error.... as in massively, large, caverness openings for all the endless possibilities.)

[Grin]

Coming from a mother who was a christian and a father who was an atheist, I'll just add that people of faith take their religions to literally. I too believe in God, but do not believe the bible should be taken literally, but as a guide to social interaction.

[max1]

Not to sure if I believe in God or not (kinda hedgin my bet here in case im wrong)there are way to many scientific facts too just dismiss then but then again I see some things in my life that I simply cant explain. But one thing is for sure if more folks

but do not believe the bible should be taken literally, but as a guide to social interaction.

I think the world would be a better place, but until then I will continue to stock up, cause you people are gonna eff this up in some way