If evolution were a fact, proven beyond doubt,or even a convincing theory, we could not possibly expect to see thousands of reputable scientists rejecting it outright. The fact that a lesser number of scientists reject evolution is not the issue here, as some evolutionists maintain.The issue is that thousands of credible scientists would not deny the theory of evolution if it were a proven fact. Something else, then, must account for belief in evolution, something other than the scientific data.
I think you got that backwards. Only a relative few scientists (less than 1% as Percy pointed out) do not accept evolution. If so many other scientists accept the evidence for evolution, then something else must account for the denial of the evidence on the part of the < 1%. My guess is that 99.99% of the few "rejectors" are theists of the fundamental type and that they were either raised that way or only started denying the evidence after their conversion. Care to prove me wrong?
"You are metaphysicians. You can prove anything by metaphysics; and having done so, every metaphysician can prove every other metaphysician wrong--to his own satisfaction. You are anarchists in the realm of thought. And you are mad cosmos-makers. Each of you dwells in a cosmos of his own making, created out of his own fancies and desires. You do not know the real world in which you live, and your thinking has no place in the real world except in so far as it is phenomena of mental aberration." -
The Iron Heel by Jack London
"Hazards exist that are not marked" - some bar in Chelsea
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