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Through the Looking Glass
What's interesting about Creationism is that it has an entirely different motive from science, but chooses to pretend as though it doesn't. The purpose of science is to come up with descriptive models of the world of observation that are useful for explaining and especially predicting phenomena. The purpose of Creationism is to crowd out information that in any way competes with one particular story - a story that only incidentally served the purpose of functioning as a descriptive model in the first place, and that was based on very limited information used for completely different purposes than science.
What Creationists want to do is pretend they are using the tools of the scientific method to bolster a story that has almost nothing to do with scientific inquiry. They are fundamentally dishonest and they give their religion a bad name. The irony of course, is that they think they are somehow doing the work of "God" when in fact all they are doing is trying to find a way to reinforce the protective shell around their damaged or fragile egos.
An emotionally maturing human being cannot stomach this sort of dishonesty. The result is that the Creationists blaspheme their God, defame their religion and themselves, and end up feeling more isolated and besieged when they started.
These are the predictable consequences of being dishonest.
Having said that, "Bible_Student" is correct about one thing . . . the scientific method (not just the Theory of Evolution) has massive implications for his particular type of dogmatic religious belief.
What Creationists want to do is pretend they are using the tools of the scientific method to bolster a story that has almost nothing to do with scientific inquiry. They are fundamentally dishonest and they give their religion a bad name. The irony of course, is that they think they are somehow doing the work of "God" when in fact all they are doing is trying to find a way to reinforce the protective shell around their damaged or fragile egos.
An emotionally maturing human being cannot stomach this sort of dishonesty. The result is that the Creationists blaspheme their God, defame their religion and themselves, and end up feeling more isolated and besieged when they started.
These are the predictable consequences of being dishonest.
Having said that, "Bible_Student" is correct about one thing . . . the scientific method (not just the Theory of Evolution) has massive implications for his particular type of dogmatic religious belief.
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