Do you see a similarity between the way religious fanatics deny evolution today and the way........?

Question

.......religious fanatics denied Galileo's thory of planetary motion (to the point of torturing him until he retracted his beliefs)

In 500 years will history look back at the denial of evolution in a similar way.

Answer 1

Scary, isn't it?

Answer 2

People believe something they read in YA, but don't look it up!
Did you know that Galileo was a creationist?
Oh....and so were these guys....most of them aren't idiots like I keep reading about in YA. Newton, Kelvin, Boyle, Dalton, Pascal, Linnaeus, Mendel, Pasteur, Kepler.
The best quote is by a winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics, Arthur H. Compton: "Science is the glimpse of God's purpose in nature. The very existence of the amazing world of the atom and radiation points to a purposeful creation, to the idea that there is a God and an intelligent purpose back of everything....An orderly universe testifies to the greatest statement ever uttered: 'In the beginning, God....'"

Another thing you may be familiar with is when scientists said the earth was flat....Christopher Columbus believed it was round because that's what the Bible said. He sailed off because he trusted the BIBLE over the SCIENTISTS!

You guys make me shake my head....Most of the people that are quoting scientific theory aren't even scientists..

Answer 3

Why do you utilize religious ? If one faith does no longer have faith in Evo..u cant bash all relgions hinduism does have faith in evolution... no longer precisely like darwin's yet in a extra logical and explainable way hinduism believes we would desire to bypass by 8.4 million distinctive species in the previous attaining human hindu epic Ramayan has point out of the lacking link... some 0.5 apes and 0.5 people who helped Rama combat with Ravana

Answer 4

"Missing Link" Still Missing

Imaginations certainly took flight over Archaeoraptor Liaoningensis, a birdlike fossil with a meat-eater’s tail that was spirited out of northeastern China, ‘discovered’ at a Tucson, Arizona, gem and mineral show last year, and displayed at the National Geographic Society in Washington, D.C. Some 110,000 visitors saw the exhibit, which closed January 17; millions more read about the find in November’s National Geographic. Now, paleontologists are eating crow. Instead of ‘a true missing link’ connecting dinosaurs to birds, the specimen appears to be a composite, its unusual appendage likely tacked on by a Chinese farmer, not evolution.

"Archaeoraptor is hardly the first ‘missing link’ to snap under scrutiny. In 1912, fossil remains of an ancient hominid were found in England’s Piltdown quarries and quickly dubbed man’s apelike ancestor. It took decades to reveal the hoax." U.S. News & World Report, February 14, 2000

"Darwin admitted that millions of ‘missing links,’ transitional life forms, would have to be discovered in the fossil record to prove the accuracy of his theory that all species had gradually evolved by chance mutation into new species. Unfortunately for his theory, despite hundreds of millions spent on searching for fossils worldwide for more than a century, the scientists have failed to locate a single missing link out of the millions that must exist if their theory of evolution is to be vindicated." Grant R. Jeffery, The Signature of God

"There are gaps in the fossil graveyard, places where there should be intermediate forms, but where there is nothing whatsoever instead. No paleontologist . . . denies that this is so. It is simply a fact. Darwin’s theory and the fossil record are in conflict." David Berlinsky

"Scientists concede that their most cherished theories are based on embarrassingly few fossil fragments and that huge gaps exist in the fossil record." Time magazine, Nov. 7, 1977

"The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing." G. K. Chesterton

Answer 5

hmmm interesting. So you believe Christians today the same as Christians 500 years ago? I, as a christian believe the "theory" of evolution, a very interesting "theory" and an "attempt" to explain God's mysteries. If one chooses it could also explain away the existance of God instead. How about you just believe whatever you like. And I will continue to be sad for all the non-believers who ignore God's miracles. I pray you have a lovely day.

Answer 6

In 500 years, if religion still exists, I doubt the world will. If religion is defeated within that time, then yes, history will look back upon fundies with the same laughable light that we view Galileo's contempories...

Answer 7

That's it exactly. But it's really no surprise. They think almost everything in science is against their religion, except those things they use everyday, like medicine. Except, when it comes to medicine, they say it was God who gave those scientists that knowledge. *sigh* It never ends.

Answer 8

Yes, it's the same thing all over again.

I'm saddened that many also think the earth is under 10,000 years old... some have posted it's 5-6000 years old.

I even had one respond to a posting with a statement claiming that it never rained on earth prior to Noah's flood!!!

Answer 9

Excellent analogy. The Church publicly apologised for "the Galileo incident," but will it apoligise for this, considering that rather than merely slowing down the progress of science, creationism is actually damaging the education of our country's children, among other things?

Answer 10

Yes it really is much the same, except now we have separation of church and state, so the churches don't have so much power. So they can't kill people like they the church did Giordano Bruno for claiming stars were suns.

Answer 11

Gosh, you must really be old. To be able to remember that far back and to relate it to present day gives us all such inspiration. What's your secret for longevity without senility?