When you have 3.6 Billion adherents to your faith, we can start talking about teaching your ideas in school. When you think you’re right or not the decision on whether or not to teach creationism in school should come from the majority and the fact is 82.3% of Americans are christian and therefore believe that the earth was created by God and only 11.6 are unaffiliated with a religion, of which only a fraction are atheist or agnostic. Take out the agnostics because if they’re really agnostic they won’t care what’s being taught in school, and we’re talking about a small number of really loud people that are trying to force their beliefs on the rest of the country. How messed up is that. I’m not going to force my beliefs on you. I think that’s why they did the whole separation of church and state thing, so that a certain belief system, Evolution included, would not be forced upon the population. So teach evolution, go ahead, I know for a fact that Brigham Young University and Brigham Young University Idaho, two christian schools teach evolution in their required classes, but if you’re going to teach one THEORY, and I emphasize theory not fact, then give credence to other theories that bare any social impact on our society. Like how about a theory that more than 50% of the world subscribes to? Anyway, peace be the journey, I give you credit for some funny stuff, like pirates and global warming, but don’t pretend to take nothing seriously if you actually do have very serious agenda.
–Jordan
All religions go through a phase of perceived fakeness. Funny you bring up BYU. Mormonism got a lot of criticism for years because Joseph Smith used seer stones to find the location of their original scriptures and translate them from unknown languages. Some might say that sounds like BS. But with time and pressure it becomes a religion. Not unlike the formation of rocks. I am a scientist first, remember.
If you would like to talk about numbers as legitimacy then you should remember that when christianity was first starting out they were considered a cult by the romans and put to death because of it. Add in the “earth is the centre of the universe” theory and “the world is flat”, we can see that the majority is not always correct.
I dont know when people outside the scientific community will realise that generally accepted theory is the highest form of truth available to scientists without heading into the world of mathematics, A theory is not a hypothesis, it is a culmination of all the facts that we have attained into a description of the process that is believed to occur, tested endlessly and to all the scrutiny the best minds in the field can put towards it. And then tested more and more daily moulding it into the nearest thing to a posteriori truth we can get.
Fact, animal species change over time, and become better suited to their environments
Theory, explains how, DNA makeup and replication can result in mutations and natural selection explains how this is advantageous