I know a number of people who are about as willing to understand evolution as they are willing to understand how a hybrid car works or the campaign platform of a presidential candidate. It seems that by falling in line like this and following the crowd rather than doing what it takes to understand something as complex as evolution they are just intellectually lazy.
The same goes with many of my religious friends. I'm not talking about those who are active and go to some sort of weekly service here. I'm talking about those who answer the "Do you believe in god?" question with a shrug and a "Yeah, sure."
So, without addressing the *active* theists and active atheists, are theism and scientific ignorance the default position of those who are lazy, unintelligent, uneducated, disinterested, or who don't or won't think about things that require critical thinking?
If that's the case then only atheists have bothered to go outside the norm and taken steps to alter inertia, right?
2007-05-14
04:07:16
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Peter D
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