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I feel for all the children out there being told lies about Darwin and evolution. It’s not their fault; yet they blindly believe their parents, gaurdians, and *eek* teachers. Here’s an article from someone who was raised with fauly information and grew up to make up his own mind:

Fortunately, as I grew I didn’t take this explanation at face value. I learned that Darwin’s theory wasn’t just about apes evolving into humans. And in the 150 years since the publication of Darwin’s On the Origin Of Species, science has “evolved” enough to expand on this theory, tie up some loose ends, and bring the theory closer to fact.

The reason I bring this up, on Darwin’s 200th birthday, is that many persons believe as I did as a boy. They believe the creation story in Genesis to be literal. They believe the earth to be about 6,000 years old. Adam was created from dust and Eve from Adam’s rib. These were the first two humans. They didn’t evolve from any lower life form.

Though I don’t necessarily agree with the author on his general views about belief, I appreciate the separation of Evolution from Atheism. Evolution can easily exist without a god or belief, but does it have to everyone? Religion can be far more dangerous than belief in a higher power (on its own), as I have previously noted.

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5. What would you like to say to Darwin? 

“You are a wealthy man, you married a wealthy woman, why don’t you just live quietly out in the countryside and not torture us with your half-baked suppositions, which have caused so much misery?”

So, in essence, Stein wants Darwin to not have the same freedoms he is supposedly fighting for? Why don’t you just live quietly… Half-baked suppositions? Misery? Even if evolution was later proved to be incorrect, it’s always important to be aware of other theories. Sounds like he’s closer to that of a Nazi than those who he accuses. How dare he! (I don’t normally say “how dare” anyone, but he’s completely doing what he accuses “big science” of doing.)

I want to emphasize, Darwin was not like the crazed neo-Darwinists of today. Darwin believed in the freedom of inquiry. He encouraged there to be further study and debate. He said that in writing before he died. 

Neo-Darwinists? Of course he wasn’t like the ones who respect him today (that doesn’t even make sense); things are different, he could have even been killed if he was more vocal. He wanted more debate to continue because he was already considered heretical for not automatically accepting creationism on faith. To debate evolution to this day with old theories of creationism is nothing more than a manufactroversy. There’s no use to keep rehashing old failed ideas. In any case, “big science” is the one who has been persecuted by religion for centuries. Give science a chance.

Neo-Darwinists ask us to believe in things not seen. We’re not supposed to have an established religion in America, but we do, and it’s called Darwinism. 

How is “Darwinism” a religion? It’s not even an ideology but a collection of facts that have been tested and retested… and proven. There is no belief or faith involved. It’s only unseen because you’re not looking. Creationism involves religious belief of some type. Evolution just explains how and why we came to where we are.

There is no established religion in America, except for general theism. Just ask any rational god-free person in America.

Make sure you also check out 6 Things Ben Stein Doesn’t Want You to Know (Scientific American). H/t toomanytribbles.

Expelled ~ Expelled ~ Expelled ~ Expelled ~ Expelled ~ Expelled

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