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Originally Posted by Halx
Yeah, we need the same decisive action today. We need a clear separation from creationism because otherwise, they will latch on and we'll never shake them loose.
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Way too late. This has been going on since the 80's at least. I was being taught creationism in the 80's and early 90's. Naturally I fought evolution as a teenager even though I studied it as a child. By the time I was...9? I had already decided on evolution as a viable way to explain the patterns we see in biology, then my grandfather picked up on that and decided to have me read creationism books. Being a child, I absorbed it like everything else.
Once I graduated high school I had done a 180 back to evolution. It's irrefutable.
The trouble (for me) was a belief in God coupled with spiritual experiences that no one in my family seemed to understand, and the imagined concept of science vs God. At this point in my life however, I see no more conflict between those topics. That's just me though.
I'll have no part of religious wars other than to tell someone to get out of my face with that shit. I'm pretty much the same with atheist views as well. Society will do as it will. I'm just along for the ride.