Baraka_Guru

roachboy's last couple of posts are well worth reading. They do well to summarize the inherent challenges with this issue. I don't think anybody said that the theory of evolution is a solution that's cut & dried and in the bag. They're still working on it, as they are working on other areas of scientific endeavour. Consider the work also being done on the atomic level and how they're still expanding and adding to the basis of Newtonian physics.

I think what is of most concern on a practical level is how we approach science on the level of basic education. A basic education should teach actual knowledge, even if it's incomplete and still being figured out. This essentially excludes Creationism from a scientific classroom, well, because there aren't any facts that support it, and then you have Creationists who don't engage in the scientific method and so don't jump through the same hoops the members of the scientific community do before their work is accepted as worthy of study and education.

I don't see how this is even an issue. In my mind it would be like introducing the practices of witchcraft as viable working alternatives to the theories we have in psychology, and then doing so also with alchemy in chemistry, astrology and the geocentric model of the universe in astronomy, preformationism in biology, flat- and hollow-earth theories in geography, humoralism in medicine, and numerology in mathematics.

Knowledge is knowledge. Faith is faith. Let's keep things straight.

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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot