The Growing Disbelief in Evolution Among Republicans

[YmirGF]

Don't think the consensus was 100%, though I will agree it was a majority. What you point out, though, is the strength of science over religion.

Yeah, I'm aware of that.

When Einstein came along with theories that improved our understanding of how the universe works, science changed its belief structure because of the validity of the new theories, which were proven by repeatable testing and checking the results.

Yeppers...

With creationism as with religion, nothing changes in their viewpoint. It is set in stone. Why? Because belief rules. Facts play no part. A significant portion of when religions have changed their point of view was when they could no longer ignore the reality of the science.

I wouldn't say that it is set in stone, but it is very hard to back-peddle on deeply entrenched thinking without looking extremely foolish and losing boatloads of credibility.

Earth being the center of the Universe. The belief in a flat earth. The age of the earth being only 6,000 years, and so on and so on. None of these beliefs were changed because of theology. None.

There is some truth in that and I have always treated Creationist arguments with the disdain and contempt that they most assuredly deserve.

The odd thing is, if I were an American, I would be a Republican. Politics makes for strange bedfellows... as it were... Oh, and that is coming from a former "card carrying" member of the Liberal Party of Canada (and was for 20 years).

 

[1robin]

After you've been here a bit longer you'll see this pretty frequently. If people wanted to stay on topic they would. What happens is that an OP subject runs out of gas and people start going off on various tangents. IMO there's nothing wrong with it. If you want to stay on-topic fine, maybe you'll get lucky and resurrect it, but don't expect too much.

Yes I know it was off the track, but that likes saying there are trees in them there woods. Once off the track I had to at least finish the point. Now get the train back where ever it was going and let it go.

 

[brokensymmetry]

Well, to be fair, the consensus opinion in physics was 100% about the nature of the universe until a young fellow in a Swiss patent office turned everything on its head.

Progress of scientific knowledge I always understand in terms of scales of precision. We know to x number of decimal places this theoretical model predicts what we see experimentally, and this is the case with these parameters In this sense Newton's model works fine if you take this into account.

 

[NulliuSINverba]

Republicans? Out of Touch? On a generally accepted issue?

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Heaven forfend.

As if they don't have enough on their plates already?

 

[Revoltingest]

I heard that pie was being discussed here.
Blackberry is me favorite...but it must be chock full of berries.

I have a cartoon too!