http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070608/od_nm/turkey_creationism_dc_1
Wasn't George Washington a Freemason? Darwin hadn't even been born yet. Hitler MISQUOTED Darwin to serve his own evil purposes. It looks like ignorance about evolution is not exclusive to Christian fundamentalists after all. I think this author's conclusions are absurd, primarily because they ARE absurd. How about you?
2007-06-11 01:28:51 · 6 answers · asked by Paul Hxyz 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Self-delusion and self-importance often go together, and ignorance is far easier to maintain than education.
2007-06-11 01:39:29 · answer #1 · answered by Scott M 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No, I don't think it is. If you want to take religion as an example, i will use the Koran.
If someone was lead to believe that all of the western world is an attack on Islamic beliefs, then terrorism occurs via the deluded sheik. But if the same person was to read the Koran in its entirety with spiritual enlightenment as the focus, then a far more different outcome is achieved.
What I'm saying is that if someone went to the source of their knowledge on a subject (bible, Koran, evolution, communist manifesto), then ignorance cannot be repeated because the person could determine what it means for themselves.
2007-06-11 08:38:01 · answer #2 · answered by carabatzis_2000 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"Wasn't George Washington a Freemason?' I have no clue what that fact has to do with anything else in your question.
The word 'ignorance" means that something is not known. We are all ignorant, in that no one knows everything.
It is entirely more ignorant to believe an unproven theory then it is to say that we don't know for sure.
Evolution and it's companion, natural selection, are no closer to being proven today then they were when Darwin dreamed them up. In fact, the theory is in constant change mode.
The so-called mammal explosion that was said to occur after the Dinosaurs died out is now in question.
The claim the Neanderthals mated with other human types and integrated with them is now in question. And many scientists now believe that the Neanderthals simply died out. And "climate change" may have caused that to happen.
2007-06-11 08:47:24 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Evolution = change. And anyone older than 5 can see that we are in a state of constant change. Change is the ONLY consistent thing about the Universe. Fundies tend to think of the world as a painting whereas, the rest of us know that it is really more like a movie in that, it's not static. Let the fundies do as they please. After they bring about their own little Armageddon, the world will be well rid of them.
2007-06-11 10:37:54 · answer #4 · answered by LoneRanger 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The author is a Muslim Creationist.
What more do you need to know?
2007-06-11 08:32:11 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Yeah they are wacky.
2007-06-11 08:33:38 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋