Comments on Musings From Achronos: Mind the dust

Have you seen Ben Steins Expelled: No intelligence...

2010-09-20T21:14:00.125-07:00

Have you seen Ben Steins Expelled: No intelligence allowed. It is a documentary that gets confused with being completely pro-religion, but what I got from it was Ben was simply wanting both sides to be recognized as faith.

I'm going to have to agree with the previous c...

2010-07-27T13:49:50.546-07:00

I'm going to have to agree with the previous comment. In the case of most U.S. schools, the subject of evolution is either incorrectly taught, or avoided altogether. The principles of scientific reasoning are thrown out the window, and it degenerates into an argument of faith.

Evolution is a tricky subject that people will alw...

2010-07-25T02:01:30.124-07:00

Evolution is a tricky subject that people will always be misinformed on because our schools are not allowed to teach it, and most people get what little they know about it from really bad sources.

It seem like whenever the subject come up, the "news" networks and talk radio manage to find the two most over the top crazy and disingenuous people from each side and let them shout at the each other between commercial breaks.

One will say, we have fossil records showing progression of species dating back millions of years, therefore, God isn't real. Then the next guy simply says it's all the devil's trickery and you're going to hell if you believe it.

The entire subject (at least in normal public discourse), has been framed as a matter of Christian vs. Atheism, so it's no wonder people don't engage their scientific reasoning abilities when it comes up.

I don't think the majority of people are so dumb to not know the very basics of middle school science, it's that they've been misinformed on the subject and it has been successfully framed to make it an emotional topic rather than a scientific one.