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Originally posted by Brad McFall:
What is the general responsibility or response to the ICR position that taught evolution is a "religion"? The only thing I can think of is that it is then some kind of horizontal ritualized pedagogy (assuming this is not a bluff for either side). I know that one can not equate teachers of evolution and a fraternity and when the next thing I hear is that it takes more "faith" to believe in evolution than creation this appears fundamentally evangelistic to me.
Assuming I’ve recovered from my didactic slough, allow me to elaborate (as you’ve also been requested by another to critique my new thread, Does only Christian ID make sense for the creationist?).
Faith seems essentially a ‘super’-bias and affects mutationalists and creationists alike, despite the 'religiousness' often associated. Some would also maintain perhaps that faith also includes: ‘clinging to’, ‘cleaving to’, ‘believing in’, etc., with or without religious creeds.
(I edited the above due to incoherencies)
[This message has been edited by Philip, 05-07-2002]
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