All your approach is the same as these last posts show. No real effort.
I've patiently tried to educate you about evolution for years on this forum,
I’ve learned quite a bit from you. But you’ve done nothing to show that it is true.
Typically, you avoid the hard questions and ignore most of what is presented to you in terms of stuff you could learn.
Not at all.
This thread alone refuted that.
That 3% of scientists, a large proportion of whom I'm betting are not biologists or scientists whose work otherwise requires an understanding of biology. Is that who you're talking about?
I’ve already told you what I mean.
I don’t trust statistics, especially when it comes to who does or does not accept darwinism. Because it isn’t about science, it’s about politics.
Of course you are. Since you know there's an overwhelming expert consensus on the subject, you want to toss out the experts and work solely with the amateurs.
There you go again, telling me who and what I am. As I said earlier, a world in which your mindset has the majority of power, would be a nightmare.
I am interested in what makes people accept Darwin’s theory. Because of this you assume I want to toss out the experts, even though there are experts who do not accept it as the best explanation.
Partly this is due to extensive efforts at propagating false ideas about evolution, which we can largely put down to fundamentalist American Christians.
You assume they are false ideas.
I don’t believe it is down to the churches.
I don’t think you need to be religious to not accept darwinism. I think you have to be religious minded to accept it. Science does not back up darwinism, because science can’t back it up with experimentation or observation. If it could, nobody could deny it. No scientist could deny it. If it were true, we would instinctively know. As it stands, it has to be indoctrinated into the populace, continuously. And even then the average person can’t explain what it is that makes them accept it. They can only refer to pictures, and rhetoric like what you’re spinning here.
Anything that requires you to be an expert, just to be able to give a simple explanation, is not something that I would personally regard as truth. No one here can give a simple explanation, including you.
Nevertheless, many non-experts without special training in critical thinking, as well as those who have developed such skills, accept evolution despite being non-experts.
And I would like to know why.
The best way, in my opinion, is to just straight out ask folk why they accept it. No one can give an answer that doesn’t involve exaggerated pictures, or rhetoric such as yours.
You rhetoric is just more informed than the others on here, but equally vacant.
“It obvious...”, is not an explanation. Or reeling off scientific genres, or quoting statistics. None of these explain anything.
This is hardly surprising since at its core the theory of evolution is not difficult to grasp. Also, it quite obviously has massive explanatory power, visible even to non-experts. Alex and paddoboy both have a good understanding of scientific methods, and they are able to apply their general knowledge of science,
That’s your opinion.
But you’ve offered nothing to show that it matters. As far as I can surmise , you give them props purely because they accept darwinism, and reject God.
Would you still feel the same way if they rejected darwinism and accepted God?
Or is accepting darwinism the criteria?
You, on the other hand, are afraid of what you might find, were you ever to honestly try to learn about the theory. So you never really look.
There you go again, telling me what I think.
This is why I tend not to bother with you, because this type of behaviour is at the forefront of all our discussions.
So until I tell you, why make that assumption?
Why make any assumptions?
Why are you so emotional about darwinism?
Apart from the religion of darwinism, where have I brought up religion.
Personally I don’t, and most probably won’t, discuss religion on here. I discuss theism and atheism. This discussion is rooted in theism and atheism. The only religion I’m discussing is darwinism.
I don’t mean religion as in the Christian, or Islamic sense (although it may well become), I mean by the attitude of its adherents. It is non different than the attitude that of Christians, who defend their belief, against those that don’t accept it.
