Your post reveals the deep confusion of creationists.
Creationists think that everyone basically thinks like them, only different.
Creationists know that
their belief is predicated on faith. So, because they are mostly insane, they also believe that any idea opposed to theirs must also be predicated on faith. And so they believe that rational people must regard
The Origin Of Species as our holy book just like creationists regard the Bible as
their holy book, and we must revere Darwin in the same way that they revere the Apostles, and because we regard natural selection as having done some of the things that they attribute to God, we evolutionists must bow down and worship natural selection ...
Creationists can't imagine someone believing something for sane reasons, just 'cos the evidence says so. They can only think about realists as being like them only having a different set of beliefs.
I would point out that realists don't do the same thing.
Creationists rave about how "evolution is a religion", because the nastiest and most insulting thing that they can think of to say about biology is that it resembles their own beliefs. Meanwhile scientists do
not say that creationism is a science. They stand up and say that creationism is
not a science. They say that creationism is about as far as science as can possibly be. This is how
I would insult creationism --- I would say that it is
the opposite of science.
But when a religious person wishes to insult science, he says that it's
exactly like religion.
I do think this is odd. Surely if a religious person wants to insult science, he should say that it's the very opposite of his religion. But instead he jumps up and down and screams: "Look, you're just like me! You're doing what I'm doing! Your beliefs are exactly as ill-founded as mine! Admit it, you're as irrational as I am! Your beliefs are
religion, just exactly like the thing that I would live and die for. Religion! Religion! You have
faith, just like me.
You're exactly like me ---
you idiot!"
Well, I think it's odd.
Edited by Dr Adequate, : No reason given.
Edited by Dr Adequate, : No reason given.