Lobbyists in America and Faith schools in the UK are still banging on about ‘teaching both sides of the evolution and creationism (Intelligent Design) debate. Let me explain, logically, how absurd this really is.
If Gordon Brown said the earth was flat the newspaper wouldn’t say ‘Opinions on the shape of the earth differ’ There would not be camps on each side fighting it out. Brown would be described as nothing more than a nut-job, he would be kicked out of office and made out to be a laughing stock. Why is this? Because we know the earth is round because of an abundance of proof. Observational proof.
So why do we give all this ridiculous and unnecessary credence to so-called alternatives to Evolution by natural selection? Why are we taking the claims of whack-job creationists seriously? Even worse, intelligent design is to the theory of evolution as what astrology is to astronomy or what Alchemy is to Chemistry. We don’t have to teach both of them in school. What makes creationism more scientific than magic? We don’t teach magic alongside physics.
The theory of evolution has just as much proof as the theory that the earth is round. True, when it was first thought up and published by Darwin a hell of a lot of scientists argued against him. But that was then`, now, every single branch of science from genetics to molecular biology to paleontology (Ross from ‘friends’) backs up Darwin’s theory of evolution. Hell, we can even observe it and have in bacterium in metal containers. Anyone can observe it as the test, although I won’t go into specific details now, is completely reproducible and more importantly falsifiable.
I only wish that the public would open its heart to biology as they did to the moon landings. The picture of the spherical earth is concrete proof that the earth is not flat. The bacterium in a number of flasks is concrete proof in the same way. It just didn’t get the publicity.
The battle of evolution vs. creationism has been won everywhere except in the religious public mind.
Not only that… I can show you the proof.
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