Comment by arkey

Comment by arkey 4 days ago

On the other hand, my sister is a firm Creationist Christian, has a PhD and had a brilliant career in research (albeit nothing directly related to 'The Beginning of All Things').

Chances are she is less "scientifically ignorant" than many people around here, myself included.

Just like my sister's, yours is a specific case. It's sad that they didn't teach you Creation in a way that wouldn't cancel out Science, as Science itself is something profoundly Christian as well.

"O, Almighty God, I am thinking Thy thoughts after Thee!..." - Johannes Kepler

UltraSane 4 days ago

Are we talking young-earth creationist or "God triggered the big bang and guided evolution" creationist? Because there is a huge difference between them!

Young earth creationists are scientifically ignorant by definition.

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arkey 4 days ago

Young-earth creationist, as in "God created everything from scratch in 7 days".
There are many scientists out there that believe in that. They are not scientifically ignorant, they just believe different stuff from you, which, mind you, unless you've seen all proof and understand everything about it to the very last detail, you just hold a faith-based belief of what you're told about by a specific bunch of people/books.
People forget that we often know a lot about stuff, but then we discover more stuff which totally changes the stuff we knew and so on.
Not intending to start a flamewar here or anything, but the fact is that even if there's a lot of evidence for many claims about it, the THEORY of Evolution is not failsafe let alone definitely proven.
You can choose to go with it until we have something better, that's your choice.
Allow that same choice for the rest of the people out there.

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- UltraSane 4 days ago
  
  "There are many scientists out there that believe in that. "
  Not any GOOD ones.
  "They are not scientifically ignorant, "
  They are actually.
  " they just believe different stuff from you, "
  They believe very stupid things directly at odds with all evidence. All of modern technology is a result of the exact same logical thought that led to the theory of evolution. If you reject it where do you draw the line? Do you reject fusion in stars because there is no reason for them to last so long?
  "People forget that we often know a lot about stuff, but then we discover more stuff which totally changes the stuff we knew and so on."
  
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  arkey 3 days ago
  
  > Do you reject fusion in stars because there is no reason for them to last so long?
  No. Why would I?
  You see? You're jumping to absurd conclusions. The fact that I don't believe in Evolution does not mean I reject the Scientific Method, or technology, or reasoning, or logic.
  I'm an engineer. I like and enjoy Science, building things, researching, learning, understanding, reasoning, creating. Don't try to make it incompatible or exclusive.
  > Not any GOOD ones.
  Maybe you should review a bit your history of Science.
  
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