Terrible news for the Creation Science museum (and Republicans)

PostmodernProphet said:
isn't the ability to reproduce enough?
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If biological information can be conjured out of lifeless chemicals the abiogenesis problem solves itself.

Francis Crick [he knew a thing or two about biological information] was skeptical that it could. He postulated that aliens seeded the planet with DNA [or life] and it jumped started the rest. They made fun of him but it’s as good an idea as any.

Crick at least understood the problem.
 
As your spiritual advisor licensed by the online church of light not heat it is my distinct pleasure to inform you that there is no god and you will be worm food for eternity.

Please burn a live goat to assuage the powers of emptiness, universal expansion and random Kuiper belt objects.
 
Micawber said:
As your spiritual advisor licensed by the online church of light not heat it is my distinct pleasure to inform you that there is no god and you will be worm food for eternity.

Please burn a live goat to assuage the powers of emptiness, universal expansion and random Kuiper belt objects.
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God says to tell you He's not impressed......
 
Darth Omar said:
I agree with most of this except for your use of creationist.

Creationist is a broad category. In fact, it’s opposite is materialist atheist/agnostic. If you lumped young earth creationists in with the latter group [who can be equally ‘fundamentalist’ in their attitudes] they’d still be in the minority compared to the population that believes the creation was created by a higher being.

That’s all a ‘creationist’ is. So keep in mind when you use creationist as a perjorative you’re talking about most people.
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The context I used in my post and throughout the thread is that creationist is shorthand for young earth creationist, aka biblical literalists who believe in a young earth, deny the conventional scientific principles of evolution and cosmology, and accept the fundamentalist interpretation of scripture in the Torah as literal and historical truth.

Nobody I am aware of in this thread is using the word creationist as a stand-in for a religious person who believes in a divine creative power at the root of existence and all observable reality.
 
Cypress said:
The context I used in my post and throughout the thread is that creationist is shorthand for young earth creationist, aka biblical literalists who believe in a young earth, deny the conventional scientific principles of evolution and cosmology, and accept the fundamentalist interpretation of scripture in the Torah as literal and historical truth.

Nobody I am aware of in this thread is using the word creationist as a stand-in for a religious person who believes in a divine creative power at the root of existence and all observable reality.
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But creationists they remain.
 
Darth Omar said:
But creationists they remain.
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Playing word games is one of the least interesting things to do on a message board.

It was crystal clear the context of the thread pertained to young earth creationists who believe literal historical veracity and scientific principles are reflected in the Jewish Torah, as they interpret it.

A more interesting question is why biblical literalism and biblical inerrancy has taken root in rightwing American Christianity in a way it has not in world Christianity more broadly.
 
Cypress said:
Playing word games is one of the least interesting things to do on a message board.

It was crystal clear the context of the thread pertained to young earth creationists who believe literal historical veracity and scientific principles are reflected in the Jewish Torah, as they interpret it.

A more interesting question is why biblical literalism and biblical inerrancy has taken root in rightwing American Christianity in a way it has not in world Christianity more broadly.
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It’s not a word game.

A creationist is anyone who rejects reductionist materialism: the notion that humans are just a complex arrangement of atoms; all of biological life is an epiphenomenon of natural laws acting on matter.

I believe the Catholic Church and Catholic doctrine falls into that category. Young earth creationists are subset.

To answer the question, the Christian church is on the way out in much of the West. It’s not hyperbole to say much of Europe is post-Christian so it’s hardly surprising there would be more biblical literalists here.
 
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