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Out of Curiosity,
- Thread starter Madhuri
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Only when they make much of a point of showing their belief in God. I tend to forget that Creationism even exists (it is simply too absurd to want to deny Evolutionism at this point in History), while belief in God is IMO a legitimate, if personal, belief.
Quite the opposite, in fact.
Rainbow Mage
Lib Democrat/Agnostic/Epicurean-ish/Buddhist-ish
A side question. Do Atheists acknowledge that not all Theists even believe in a creation, or that our gods created anything? I don't.
No prior assumptions, since theists vary.
The_Evelyonian
Old-School Member
What Revoltingest said.
I try not to make any assumptions or generalizations when talking to theists because I know that theistic beliefs can vary quite a bit from person to person.
Same here, although I tend to assume that people have at least a degree of coherence with the beliefs of their own claimed faiths.
Amill
Apikoros
Sure do, in fact I try to push this fact onto creationists. It seems they have more trouble realizing that not all evolutionists are atheists and that there are a lot of theists who believe in evolution.
freethinker44
Well-Known Member
I only make the assumption that a theist has a belief in some kind of god.
Honestly I get a little surprised when I learn someone rejects evolution. I'm used to it so it doesn't leave me speechless or anything, quite the opposite, but I really don't expect it as much as I probably should given the statistics.
I will never understand how a reasonable, rational person can be so completely unreasonable and irrational about anything regarding their religion. So I guess I will just keep being surprised.
Honestly I get a little surprised when I learn someone rejects evolution. I'm used to it so it doesn't leave me speechless or anything, quite the opposite, but I really don't expect it as much as I probably should given the statistics.
I will never understand how a reasonable, rational person can be so completely unreasonable and irrational about anything regarding their religion. So I guess I will just keep being surprised.
No, I don't assume it. In fact, I've noticed that I tend to assume the opposite, because I'll be rather surprised when I'm talking to a theist and it suddenly becomes apparent that he or she is a Creationist.
The vast majority of theists that I know in real life profess the Apostle's Creed on a regular basis, so the question doesn't really have much impact on my daily life.
BucephalusBB
ABACABB
I asume at first that every theist does not really follow a religion but believes "there is something".
Most of them will believe in evolution. And most will not be creationist.
It's the trend in the Netherlands..
Copernicus
Industrial Strength Linguist
By "theists", do you mean just Christians? And by "creationists" do you mean just people who believe in the biblical story of creation or who believe that some god or gods created everything?
I usually assume that most Christians are not Young Earth Creationists. I also tend to assume that a theist believes in some form of divine intervention that resulted in human beings coming into existence. That is probably a reasonable conclusion to jump to, but sometimes I need to revise it. The argument from design is one of the most powerful intuitive arguments for the existence of complex designs that we find in nature. Most people do not really understand how evolution works.
I usually assume that most Christians are not Young Earth Creationists. I also tend to assume that a theist believes in some form of divine intervention that resulted in human beings coming into existence. That is probably a reasonable conclusion to jump to, but sometimes I need to revise it. The argument from design is one of the most powerful intuitive arguments for the existence of complex designs that we find in nature. Most people do not really understand how evolution works.
Nah. Even before I acquired an image of God, I knew enough from the theists I had met in my life to know that the version of creationism that is known as a "movement" was peculiar.
Kilgore Trout
Misanthropic Humanist
I simply assume that most people haven't put enough thought into either creation or evolution to have a meaningful opinion on either. When either of these topics do come up, this assumption usually turns out to be correct.
No, I mean any religious theistic person. And by 'creationist' I mean a person who believes that God or gods came or appeared on Earth as they are. Ie/ no evolution.