Needs to be said.
Via Touchstone:
There's been some talk about Bill Nye and the dangers of denying evolution. I'm actually not going to argue for or against evolution here, or theistic evolution, etc. I'll admit I'm not much of a scientist. What I'm going to say is that I've seen a concentrated effort to declare anyone who doesn't swallow the whole story of evolution as a knuckle dragging sort of person for awhile now, and that simply isn't true. Nor is it true that creationist, espeically young earth creationists, cannot do science. I went to Cedarville University, a young earth creationist college, that has a very successful engineering program, in fact 97% of engineering graduates are employed or in graduate school. That evolution isn't a requirment to do excellent engineering seems so obvious that I suspect people will accuse me of setting up a straw man but that seems to be where we are headed. On top of that, I've personally met creationist geologists, biologists, etc who work very hard in their field.
I've touched on something like this before. Just about everyone holds opinions that other people think to be crazy. But we somehow get along. Islam is wrong in a host of ways to my understanding but I wouldn't begrude a trained muslim surgeon from operating instead of a Christian who had no idea what he or she was doing.
One of the fascinating thing in studying the movers and shakers in history is the very strange ideas they sometimes held. Sometimes they turn out to be ahead of their time or aware of something that most of the world wasn't at the time. Other times...it's just funny in hindsight to know Issaac Newton dabbled in Alchemy or Galileo refused to believe orbits were in fact, eliptical despite all the evidence presented to him.
There's been some talk about Bill Nye and the dangers of denying evolution. I'm actually not going to argue for or against evolution here, or theistic evolution, etc. I'll admit I'm not much of a scientist. What I'm going to say is that I've seen a concentrated effort to declare anyone who doesn't swallow the whole story of evolution as a knuckle dragging sort of person for awhile now, and that simply isn't true. Nor is it true that creationist, espeically young earth creationists, cannot do science. I went to Cedarville University, a young earth creationist college, that has a very successful engineering program, in fact 97% of engineering graduates are employed or in graduate school. That evolution isn't a requirment to do excellent engineering seems so obvious that I suspect people will accuse me of setting up a straw man but that seems to be where we are headed. On top of that, I've personally met creationist geologists, biologists, etc who work very hard in their field.
I've touched on something like this before. Just about everyone holds opinions that other people think to be crazy. But we somehow get along. Islam is wrong in a host of ways to my understanding but I wouldn't begrude a trained muslim surgeon from operating instead of a Christian who had no idea what he or she was doing.
One of the fascinating thing in studying the movers and shakers in history is the very strange ideas they sometimes held. Sometimes they turn out to be ahead of their time or aware of something that most of the world wasn't at the time. Other times...it's just funny in hindsight to know Issaac Newton dabbled in Alchemy or Galileo refused to believe orbits were in fact, eliptical despite all the evidence presented to him.