The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #85366   Message #1582636
Posted By: GUEST,DB
13-Oct-05 - 05:44 PM
Thread Name: BS: Evolution is Here to Stay
Subject: RE: BS: Evolution is Here to Stay
Yes, Auggie - I really should chill out. But I find that this issue really pisses me off. We always seem to have to pussy-foot around when it comes to fundamentalists - of any type (why?). It often seems to me that our entire civilisation is sliding into a pit of dogma amd irrationality. And this against a background of astounding scientific progress.
Again, I really don't want to belittle anyone's sincerely held religious beliefs (after all they might be correct!) but it's when the religious want to tell everyone else what to believe, and how to live their lives (see Donuel's stem cell story above), that the alarm bells start ringing. To me the essence of spirituality is humility and fundamentalists, in their absolute certainty, are the opposite of humble. I'm fully aware that I probably fail the humility test, myself (!), but I do feel very humble in the face of the natural world and the Universe at large and know that most of it will probably remain unknowable - even to the greatest scientists.