Evolution is almost universally accepted among those who understand it, almost universally rejected by those who don’t.
—Richard Dawkins, in an interview with CNN on November 24, 2009
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Exactly. Those who don’t understand it, or who haven’t taken the time to actually educate themselves on it, or who think that science is about opinions and not about facts are the ones who reject it.
Arrrrrggg! It’s frustrating!
This might help:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7w57_P9DZJ4&feature=player_embedded
Evolution Made Easy.
I think the major problem is that most Creatards think that they already know what the theory of evolution is despite the fact that they don’t. They therefore ignore all explanations from people who do know what it really is. Further, they get it backwards – they think that they are the ones who know what it really is.
How do you deal with people like that?
Ridicule?
;)
As my grad school mentor would often say – “Ignorance is no barrier to certainty”.
I don’t know who made the original quote, but I’ve found it to be very true.
What do they think it is? The word itself is pretty self-explanatory to me.
In my experience most creationists believe in special creation by God, and think evolution is special creation by chance. They have no understanding of the whole variation -> natural selection -> reproduction proccess.
Most think that evolutionists believe exactly the same thing as creationists but without God. Their understanding never goes deeper than that.
Yes, I’m reading “the God Delusion” right now and it does a good job of explaining the difference. I always thought of it as chance + survival of the fittest = natural selection. I think that still holds.
Heh! Have I got you addicted to TED? Watched this on their site last week. I think he’s brilliant, and I’m totally jealous of my good lady who had him as a lecturer.
Happy 150th Anniversary to the Origin of Species! I will finish up my current book today and start On the Origin of Species later. I can’t wait.
I don’t necessarily think it is a complete lack of education to cause people to not believe. I don’t know a ton about evolution, but I do accept it as fact. Its called critical thinking. Looking at the clues. I know the basic lines, but it is the only thing that makes sense!
“…Let’s stop being so damned respectful..”
- Richard Dawkins
I agree.
Yeah, being “respectful” of imaginary creatures is pretty silly.
Please, nobody bash Santa, for his night draws nigh!
My mom used to say that if you don’t believe in Santa, he won’t bring you presents. I still believe!
Happy anniversary to Darwin’s book! I just might borrow the audio book or buy it.
If that’s true, then here in the US, we need to do a far better job of teaching evolution in school, so that all students will understand it by the time they graduate High School.
Good luck with that. The Creotards don’t want to understand, and don’t want their children to understand, because it might challenge their ridiculous literal belief in the book of talking animals.
I doubt there would ever be a college named after Darwin in the states.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Darwin_University
When I was in Australia five years ago, I wanted to get a t-shirt from the college, but I wasn’t near the campus.
Hey, c’mon, we have a whole city named after him!
I think it’s availible on CD.
:-/
Maybe we could take away everything related to Darwin and evolution from people that think that evolution is a lie. Then they can heal themselves with leeches and herbes only to be gound in nature. So no vaccines, cancer threatment, antibiotics… for them. I think that this coul be convincing.
Or we could tell them that they will burn in hell if they ever take some medical help from stuff that came from evolution. Lets see if Evolution is real if these people do not take any modern medical medicine and live on leeches. LOL
Then again, one of these creationists might evolve in some superrase resistanct to all ilnesses and live eternaly. Come to think of, again proof that evolution is real so he will probably kill himself to hide the evidence.
I love the generalization first in the comment and then by a majority of the posts on it. It reminds me of the type of zeal and fervor I’ve often seen in another place, religion. “….if you really understood the Bible, you’d be a Calvinist, or a pre-trib proponent, or etc, etc. Oh thank you to the enlightened elite that abides and judges in all places.
LOL. This is true. And it even goes one more step. With Christians asserting a moral character flaw in educated nonbelievers and evolutionists asserting a stubborn blind spot in the knowledgeable evolution rejecter.
The observation that humans behave so similarly despite varying belief systems makes me question the veracity of all belief systems.
Followers of the Darwin faith bashing those for lack of evidence is pretty amusing. It’s called a theory for a reason. You have your leap of faith and believers have theirs. Yours is just deemed intelligent because no afterlife is the cool thing to believe in. Not to mention no God to answer to is the only way to live, right?
Wow. You just made Custador’s point. Hahahaha!
You mean this point?
<i?"I think the major problem is that most Creatards think that they already know what the theory of evolution is despite the fact that they don’t. They therefore ignore all explanations from people who do know what it really is. Further, they get it backwards – they think that they are the ones who know what it really is."
He did rather, didn’t he? I’d go further, though: He doesn’t even know what a theory is!
Spot the HTML error….
Let’s not miss that he’s also supported cello’s comment about asserting a moral character with that “Not to mention no God to answer to is the only way to live, right?” line.
@Patrick
Please post some details of your theory then …
I count four or five stupid creationist strawmen. That amounts to one strawman per sentence. Pretty impressive.
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