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Thread #155384   Message #3665584
Posted By: Stu
03-Oct-14 - 04:21 AM
Thread Name: BS: Special thread on Evolution & religion
Subject: RE: BS: Special thread on Evolution & religion
Ed T's link to the Faulkner piece was interesting, mainly because of the final paragraph:

" As with the question of origins, we must strive to interpret these things on our terms, guided by the Bible. Do the new theories adequately describe the world? Can we see the hand of the Creator in our new physics? Can we find meaning in our studies that brings glory to God? If we can answer yes to each of these questions, then these new theories ought not to be a problem for the Christian."

There you have it, straight from the horse's mouth: creationist and other fundamentalist christians ignore scientific method and cannot let the facts speak for themselves. They have to see everything as though through the distorting lens of religious dogma and are subject to almost ludicrous confirmation bias. These people are charlatans plain and simple; they approach scientific research from the outset expecting to find "the hand of the creator". They're not setting out to test a hypotheses as they don't have one, only an immovable and unquestionable a priori assumption (something pete accuses people like me of) that everything shows the hand of god.

Madness.