Author: dwise1
Forum: Miscellaneous Topics in Creation/Evolution
Thread: Creationists think Evolutionists think like Creationists.
Message #:
9
The paragraph I really liked:
That's when I realized that they don't think at all like we do! We're trying to construct an integrated and self-consistent world-view by learning all we can about the world; everything we learn needs to fit together for it all to make any sense. They're not trying to build a consistent world-view; they're just attacking science. We cannot in honesty hold to several ideas that all directly contradict each other, whereas creationists have no problem doing that. So they can claim that the earth can't be more than 10,000 years old and that it's millions of years old, just so long as either (or a multitude of other estimates of the age of the earth) all contradict what science says. They will even include other claims that have absolutely nothing to do with evolution or creation or the age of the earth (eg, the ozone layer) if those claims constitute an attack against science.
I offhand think the above quoted might not be representative of all young Earth creationists, but I does characterize at least some of the more feverent ones.
Any further comment should go to the source topic.
Moose
Professor, geology, Whatsamatta U
Evolution - Changes in the environment, caused by the interactions of the components of the environment.
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