It's posts like these that bring out the best of Slashdotters. Every time anything even slightly related to Darwin/Christianity/Religion is mentioned you can bet that there's going to be 700+ comments and yet they all remain reasonably intelligent and some good debates - and no comments like
In relation to the topic at hand it seems to me that a large proportion of people study lots of theories/evidence for ID OR evolution and tend to concentrate on one side of the debate. I think most people would be hard pressed to remain impartial and not develop there own views and then, probably without realising it, begin to find more information which backs up the views which they are developing. It seems that what happens then is as people reinforce their own views they tend not to study the other side of the argument as much and try just ask the other party to prove what their saying all the time while putting across the evidence for their side of the argument.
Look through the replies to the post - a lot of them are based on "Prove evolution" and then "Evolution has been proved you prove ID" and then "ID is proved you prove evolution" and so on..
I think there is common ground between ID and evolution and they do not always contradict each other. I'm a Christian but I believe that natural selection has happened and is happening. As many people point out it's often the extremists, who are a minority, who give a bad name to both camps and make it seem like everyone in that camp holds their point of view...
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It's posts like these that bring out the best of Slashdotters. Every time anything even slightly related to Darwin/Christianity/Religion is mentioned you can bet that there's going to be 700+ comments and yet they all remain reasonably intelligent and some good debates - and no comments like
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In relation to the topic at hand it seems to me that a large proportion of people study lots of theories/evidence for ID OR evolution and tend to concentrate on one side of the debate. I think most people would be hard pressed to remain impartial and not develop there own views and then, probably without realising it, begin to find more information which backs up the views which they are developing. It seems that what happens then is as people reinforce their own views they tend not to study the other side of the argument as much and try just ask the other party to prove what their saying all the time while putting across the evidence for their side of the argument.
Look through the replies to the post - a lot of them are based on "Prove evolution" and then "Evolution has been proved you prove ID" and then "ID is proved you prove evolution" and so on..
I think there is common ground between ID and evolution and they do not always contradict each other. I'm a Christian but I believe that natural selection has happened and is happening. As many people point out it's often the extremists, who are a minority, who give a bad name to both camps and make it seem like everyone in that camp holds their point of view...
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Congratulations. Will the marriage be on /. as well?