Edward O. Wilson lays out an opinion piece regarding the perennial culture war between science and fundamentalist Christianity.
He notes that the the debate about evolution seems insoluble. The reason, he argues, is because it is insoluble.
Monday, January 16, 2006
Let's Accept the Fault Line Between Faith and Science
Edward O. Wilson lays out an opinion piece regarding the perennial culture war between science and fundamentalist Christianity.
He notes that the the debate about evolution seems insoluble. The reason, he argues, is because it is insoluble.
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the debate is not insoluble. Most people that know evolution is a fact, also believe in intelligent design. One is knowing based on fact, experimentation, and evidence. One is belief based on faith and deduction.
We should just never try and confuse one with the other.
We accept evolution on faith. We don't have recorded history that shows any major evolution, so we have to believe that it happens. It's somebody's best guess. So, we are arguing about two different faiths. One faith believes that outside forces influence the physical changes in a species. The other faith believes that one force alone influences our evolution. If religion is full of it, so is science. It takes an awful lot of faith to believe that we come from a primordial puddle of stuff. We could just have easily been planted here by aliens.
My masonic friends told me never to argue about three things, religion, politics, and how somebody should raise their kid. You just lose friends.
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