Oh for fuck's sake!

[raegun]

I seriously almost cried this morning.

In my environmental science class, there's an assignment that requires you to accept Darwinism in the setup of the problem. So far, not 1 but 3 students have raised their concerns. They don't accept evolution or natural selection; they want to know how to do the assignment based on Creationism. Hello?

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[nkuvu]

When I had circuit analysis classes, we were looking at perfect circuits -- for example, the 2 ohm resistor was exactly 2 ohms. The wires provided zero resistance. The Frobobnitzen were calibrated to within 3 nanopiquarksicles, and the watchamahoooos were exactly 6536577843476256 picoducks tall.

[raegun]

I know! It's like someone is trying to say "Hey, I don't want to stir a debate, but.. I am morally against reading, and I don't see why we should read in class.... but don't reply to this unless you want to agree with me." There was virtually no room to say "hey, you're an idiot."

I think that made sense...

So I stand by my response of "Hey, you just have to fake it, duh."

[ameliabeare]

Creationism is a pretty large umbrella for a lot different, but related beliefs. I mentioned to you yesterday that in some schools Evolution has been struck from the curriculum, or has to include the Intelligent Design concept.

Not all creationists believe God dumped Adam and Eve in a garden with a snake. They call it a metaphor and believe that Evolution is the result of divine intervention, or Intelligent Design by God.

There's a whole lot that science has yet to adequately explain - to them, at least - and without enough empirical evidence from science, their next source of explanation is 'God did it'.

World Views is a -really- interesting philosophy, despite my reservations of all things philosophical. hehe I also mentioned yesterday that Modernism is no longer 'modern' or current. According to some philosophers the 'age of science' is 'at an end'.

I'm still more inclined to believe aliens did it, if Darwin didn't.

[raegun]

"
Not all creationists believe God dumped Adam and Eve in a garden with a snake. They call it a metaphor and believe that Evolution is the result of divine intervention, or Intelligent Design by God."

Most of the religious people *I* grew up with thought this way. My grandma thinks this way. I consider "sensible" Christianity that which takes the stories from the Bible as metaphor. Isn't it more important to learn to be a good person than to truly honestly believe there was a snake and all that?

Yeah.

[hammond]

There's a girl in our anatomy class that doesn't believe in evolution either. She thinks people were created exactly as they are and are a wonder of God &c. &c. Mind you, she also plans to live celibately at home until she's married...