Thus, you now admit you have a religious belief that biases you against Evolution!Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Mon Oct 18, 2021 9:54 pmThere are two alternatives: Evolutionism, and man as a unique creation of God. And whichever one is true is not a matter of "religion," meaning "whatever a person wants to believe," as if believing in God could make it so, or disbelieving could prevent it from being so. It's a matter of truth, of factuality, of reality.Scott Mayers wrote: ↑Mon Oct 18, 2021 9:27 pmCan you tell me what this 'plausible alternative' is that you also keep denying as religious, please?Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Mon Oct 18, 2021 5:48 pm
That's obvious. It's because there's a plausible alternative. Whenever that's the case, we need evidence on both sides in order to decide the case.
And there's no messing with that. Everybody who tries, loses.
Then you have to agree that atheism is the normal default given religion has to be taught. This is an argument against your presumption that I cannot presume the earlier non-scientific beliefs is made up of fools. The comparison I made was fromOf course they don't know anything about that. Good heaven's man...nothing could be more obvious than that a child has no idea at all how he arrived wherever he arrived. That's why you have to explain birth to them, whenever they get old enough to grasp the concept. So yes, they need to be taught stuff.So, with this reasoning, do you think that children are such 'fools' as to not know by default where they came fromActually, it does...unless you're prepared to think that all those people were simply fools. You would need to prove, not merely assert, that their beliefs were irrational before you were warranted in calling the entire previous world crazy.
Ignorance to Wisdom
Likewise, the religious beliefs are naive and comparable to the fool's ignorance with Darwin's Theory representing wisdom:
Religion to Evolutionary Science
(ignorant) to (wisdom)
The prior 'theory' was religious and you are stuck being in the Garden of Eden as the scientist has evolved beyond this for being the mature adults who OWN the 'curse' that you pretend doesn't exist.