In the thread on 'Expelled-no intelligence allowed' Theodoric's last post got me thinking about starting this thread.
The problem he brings up is what to do about fundamentalists that proclaim biblical inerrancy and are 'locked in' to a mental state that allows no change or growth to occur. Sort of the modern day counterpart of the shout, "great is the goddess Diana of the Ephesians".
I would suggest this thread to address the issue of the best approaches to deal with this particular problem.
This is not a thread to argue about biblical inerrancy. It is not to discuss atheism vs theism. It is only to discuss how best to promote dissemination of ToE evidence to those who are currently ignorant of those facts. It is to discuss the best manner/way to bring everybody up to speed with those facts. I am assuming then for the purposes of this thread that the argument of whether the ToE is true or not is past, that it is indeed a fact.
I would like to hear from theists who accept ToE and whether accepting ToE presented a challenge to their faith and how they overcame/resolved this conflict in their minds, or whether it presented no conflict from the get go. What was it that facilitated this change in viewpoint allowing you to accept the ToE?
From the atheist camp I'd like to hear whether they think challenging the fundamentalists' faith along with pressing the ToE is the better approach, maintaining the dichotomy as an opportunity to rid the world of 'superstition', or whether they think the ToE accepted by a majority of religious people is an acceptable goal and worthy of pursuit in its own right.
The thread about the bible supporting a flat earth world view revealed to me that this has a partial success. There were two who posted that seemed to accept a fallible position as long as that was due to the fallibility of men rather than of God.
Another idea is creating a movie debunking "Expelled - no intelligence allowed" that includes the strongest current evidence for the ToE and abiogenisis(an area of 'expelled' that was woefully out of date).
What other ideas do you have to provide for this mini-think tank thread? Someone thought of the idea for this forum at some point in time, and now it is a reality. It does such a good job that YECs I have encountered elsewhere are afraid to post here and one even referred to it as "the lion's den".
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