I have NEVER understood why people get so worked up about evolution. I think they should teach it in the schools because if you want a job as a scientist, you have to know how to talk the talk. Beyond that, who is going to care after they pass the test?
People have always gotten worked up over the origin of life as it is, and obviously people care about it because then they have to go through the rest of their life with the knowledge that they are (or the assertion that they are not) the product of a very long process involving a little bit of luck - not to mention being related to apes. Some people just can't handle that. Or they're too intellectually lazy to try and understand the process.
Actually, it's not evolution itself that's the issue - it's just become one of the hot topics in the tug-of-war between religious and secular ways of thinking. There's some deeper questions and problems involved, as anyone can see.
People have always gotten worked up over the origin of life as it is, and obviously people care about it because then they have to go through the rest of their life with the knowledge that they are (or the assertion that they are not) the product of a very long process involving a little bit of luck - not to mention being related to apes. Some people just can't handle that. Or they're too intellectually lazy to try and understand the process.
Actually, it's not evolution itself that's the issue - it's just become one of the hot topics in the tug-of-war between religious and secular ways of thinking. There's some deeper questions and problems involved, as anyone can see.
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Date: 2006-08-06 08:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-08-06 08:49 pm (UTC)Actually, it's not evolution itself that's the issue - it's just become one of the hot topics in the tug-of-war between religious and secular ways of thinking. There's some deeper questions and problems involved, as anyone can see.
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Date: 2006-08-06 09:01 pm (UTC)Actually, it's not evolution itself that's the issue - it's just become one of the hot topics in the tug-of-war between religious and secular ways of thinking. There's some deeper questions and problems involved, as anyone can see.