A sad commentary on we, as a people, and our viewpoint of our freedom can be summed up like this. We have liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans, yet those very people look at Constitutionalists as radical and extreme.................so those liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans must believe that the constitution is radical and extreme.
I really do not understand how one can have an advanced biology degree but dismiss evolution. I don't get how that happens! Though I admit, biology ain't my field...
There is no question it is possible to get the odd crack pot PhD here and there - the geologist who does not accept plate tectonics, the climate scientist who denies global warming....the clinical psychologist who actually thinks Donald Trump is not a sociopath!!
But you have to wonder about a university who allows an evolution-denying biologist to teach undergraduates....some of those kids might be getting into med school!
ThatOwlWoman (03-21-2018)
It is indeed curious, but I suppose if he doesn't insist that the kids subscribe to his beliefs in order to keep their grades up, it's an exercise more in free speech and how to identify loony-tunes through critical thinking skills. lol After all, don't we have a crapton of RWNJs here who insist that our institutions of higher learning are all infested with liberals and that they do not allow other voices or free speech from the right/loony-tunes?
I had a chemistry teacher who home-schooled her brood of five kids, talked frequently about Sunday school and how she read them the Bible for bed-times stories (poor kids, I always wondered if they had nightmares after that), etc.
Cypress (03-21-2018)
It does boggle the mind. I think what the religious person does is compartmentalize. They simply assign the religious beliefs a section of their brain and within it do not apply the skills they have learned.
Basically a"no rules apply" denial syndrome. There is no question that the DSM considers religious belief a delusional disorder except have a carve out specifically for the purpose of not diagnosing
all religious people as such. It almost reads like a safe harbor provision for crying out loud.
Within higher academic circles if one is religious it definitely undermines their credibility in the group and of course evolution is antithetical to those superstitious systems.
It is very possible to have extreme high intelligence in mathematics and applied engineering or say architecture and still be batso crazy generally and religious as well.
Those professions do not require a longitudinal understanding of anything such as evolution. So I suspect they simply refuse to point the rational probing instruments at
those particular problems. If they did, the religious beliefs would necessarily crumble. Such nonsense requires a support system of like minded goofballs and repetition
of speech, song singing, appeals to authority using thre theatrical techniques of chrches etc etc to sustain it. And finally, the strict bible thumping actual triune God
Jebus rising BS is a whole quantum leap of wacko above the mere ephemeral suspicion or hope in a higher power or good force, or whatever. Those cats are simply off the reservation.
Hopeless brainwashed fools. Those types tend to be very angry people. Naturally they have full tilt mental contradictions that frustrate them and make them lash out much
like a person with a real brain injury. Watch out for those types. They can be mean.
Cypress (03-21-2018)
Did someone just say grownup do things without thinking? LMFAO
Probably true.
I don't know if President Obama would qualify as a RWNJ but even commented on the fear of free speech on college campuses while he was still in office.
And the reality is liberals do tend to dominate college campuses in the administrations and facilities. It's been that way for awhile.
Yes, look at the comments above like:
“Within higher academic circles if one is religious it undermines their credibility...”
“There is no question that the DSM considers religious belief a delusional disorder...”
There is no doubt that liberals tend to dominate college campuses...and they intend to keep it that way if the quotes above are accurate.
Most of us prepare our kids for going to college by letting them know ahead of time the assault on their religious beliefs they will likely encounter at some point during their work there. I am a supporter of campus Bible Chairs which provide a place on or near college campuses for those of a like religious persuasion to hang out together.
cawacko (03-21-2018)
Religion tends rather more to divide than to unite."for those of a like religious persuasion to hang out together." lr #116
Christianity might have started out as one religion.
But it's been splintering ever since.
Now there's:
- Unitarians
- Catholics
- B'hai
- Protestant
- Baptist
- 7th Day
- Mormon
- etc
"The tragedy of religion is that it languishes if unorganized, and it suffers corruption if it is organized, and when badly corrupted it has demonstrated a fierce ability to do harm." author Will Durant
"It should be obvious to anyone why conservatives and libertarians should be against Trump. He has no grounding in belief. No core philosophy. No morals. No loyalty. No curiosity. No empathy and no understanding. He demands personal loyalty and not loyalty to the nation. His only core belief is in his own superiority to everyone else. His only want is exercise more and more personal power." smb / purveyor of fact 18/03/18
I see it. I've always believed to each his own what they choose to believe or not but I see the responses of those who choose to knock those who believe. Young people today are a lot less religious (if the stats I read are correct). Seems a number of them could use some God in their life and the knowledge there is something bigger out there than just them.
leaningright (03-21-2018)
You have conflated religion & god here. It's a common mistake." Young people today are a lot less religious (if the stats I read are correct). Seems a number of them could use some God in their life " c #118
But it is a statistical certitude they are not the same. Ockham's Razor: agnosticism is the most rational perspective.
"It should be obvious to anyone why conservatives and libertarians should be against Trump. He has no grounding in belief. No core philosophy. No morals. No loyalty. No curiosity. No empathy and no understanding. He demands personal loyalty and not loyalty to the nation. His only core belief is in his own superiority to everyone else. His only want is exercise more and more personal power." smb / purveyor of fact 18/03/18
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