similarities between New Age atheists and religious nut jobs (Introduction)

by George Jelliss , Crewe, Wednesday, December 08, 2010, 16:56 (5076 days ago) @ satyansh

Hallo Satyansh. A lot of points there. I'll take up Darwin first:-"New Atheist Movement followers also suffer from the same problem of faith just like religious people when Darwin is questioned. By the way just want you to know that I am a huge fan of Darwin."-Glad to hear you are a fan. Charles Darwin was certainly a great scientist, but he was born 200 years ago and a lot more knowledge about biological science has been discovered since he wrote Origin of Species. There is no question of "having faith" in what he said. He was certainly wrong on many things. Notably his theory of genetics. We base our beliefs on the far more extensive evidence now available.-"Well i certainly can assure you that a lot of rationalists are completely intolerable to any other forms of scientific explanations when it comes to Darwin's theory. so please dont tell me they are not intolerant and closed minded."-I'm not sure what alternatives to Darwin you have in mind. Many of them, such as punctuated equilibrium, or convergent evolution, or the cambrian explosion, or epigenetics, etc are well discussed and debated in scientific circles. It is only those like young-earth creationists, who go against all the evidence, that we find intolerable; especially when they try to get their crazy teachings into schools.

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GPJ