It would seem to me that most articles published in religious oriented publications describing science are deliberately deceiving. I've read quite a few articles and they are mostly deceptive and seemingly deliberately so.
The evangelistic ones tend to follow that pattern, in my experience. For example, Jehovah's Witnesses knock on my front door every now and then and provide me with complimentary copies of their "Watchtower" magazines, which I believe are mostly produced and edited in the United States. The articles that discuss scientific concepts are almost invariably full of errors and half-truths. The people who knock on the door and attempt to evangelise me are usually friendly people who seem sincere in their beliefs. I understand that they are not experts in science. Maybe they don't know any better. But the people who write those articles must surely know what they are doing.
It always puzzles me how, on the one hand, one can go about espousing "Christian values" such as honesty, and to preach on topics such as "sin", including sermons on how one should not deliberately set out to deceive others, and at the same time knowingly disseminate lies. I suppose they think that attracting new followers - or keeping the current ones - is more important than acting with integrity and honesty.
When you describe Evolution as being something where all the evidence isn't in and the Big Bang as a giant explosive fireball or imply that Evolution says that we come from "monkeys". You know the intention is to deceive.
Absolutely. Evolution has always been a thorn in the side of the fundamentalists. I think that many of them are taught a kind of superficial parody version of the science and that is what they come to believe is the real thing. There are those in the various churches who know better, of course, but who choose to continue to lie rather than face up to the reality.
As for the Big Bang, mostly I seem to see arguments from incredulity based on the most superficial understanding of the theory. The most common argument goes "It is not our lived experience that things come from nothing. Therefore, the big bang theory must be wrong. QED." In other words "I can't imagine (and I don't really want to investigate) how the universe came to be how it is, so I'll pretend it couldn't have happened the way scientists say it happened."
Doesn't this seem like the most un-Christian approach to take?There are even sites describing why not to "trust" "experts".
As in all pseudoscience, I always chuckle at that line when it appears, because here is a writer implicitly asking the reader to trust him as an expert in these matters, but simultaneously warning the reader to disregard all better-qualified experts who might have insights to offer on the topic.
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The less fundamentalist religious denominations generally aren't as worried about science as the fundamentalist evangelicals. They still make mistakes in the science, but on the whole they tend to be honest errors rather than deliberate attempts to deceive.
