The Great Transfer - GOD HAETS FAGS!!!

I'm sufficiently bilious, so here we go.

I saw a clip from a Richard Dawkins show being aired here in England in which the Atheist Activist spoke to a group of children about evolution. One of them, in all seriousness, compared the Qur'an to the incredibly massive quantities of evidence which shows the sheer quantities of evidence which supports evidence.

This was a common theme amongst the children and, from the clip, Richard didn't seem to have the wherewithal to respond correctly to these misguided wretches.

Now, can you guess what I'm going to do?

These children have been taught to ignore the weight of all this evidence because of the writings of holy books. Such creationists choose to ignore, scorn and even hate those who can provide this evidence and all of their work. Now, imagine if they did this with gravity; it seems ridiculous, but it's another demonstrable scientific theory which could just have easily been ignored with the right wording in one such tome.

As far as this old argument between religion and science goes, scientists don't do themselves any favours by using the term 'theory'. To the typical person, this sounds as though the scientists aren't 100% sure and that there's no real proof, so they lean towards something which deals in absolute certainties; God created Man, Jesus died for our Sins, GODS HAETS FAGS!!!, etc.

I don't want to be accused of intellectual elitism here, but it's another demonstrable (it's our word of the day, kids) fact that people are afraid of what they don't understand and very few people are willing to put the effort in to overcome this ignorance, in spite of what their own spiritual leaders might say.

But the reason that the word theory is used is because we allow for the possibility of being wrong; every scientist in the world believed that the world was the centre of the Universe before Galileo Galilei came along, illnesses were blamed on ill humors. The list goes on, but the point is that they should have based these theories on available evidence and expected that their heirs would surpass them. That's why the word theory is used nowadays.

I mean, everyone accepts the Theory of Relativity, right? Hell, if he'd have called it the Truth of Relativity and said that God showed him the way, then the Church of Einstein would be the third largest Christianity-offshoot in the world (And before you say it, no, Einstein wasn't a monotheist; he used the word God in Pantheistic terms).

With the sheer volume, weight, height, depth, breadth, girth etc. of evidence supporting evolution, there is no excuse for people not to at least have tried to get a balanced view of the matter and then made an informed decision on their beliefs. What they have is worse than blind faith, as 'blind' implies that it's something that they were born with which cannot be helped.

People are scared to challenge these kinds of beliefs, but they would find themselves living in a richer, more wonderful world than they had lived in before, surrounded by beauty and order unparalleled in all that we can imagine. The world which they believe that the Bible describes, see the Vatican link above, is so horribly dull and restricted by the idea that their God summoned everything a few thousand years ago that it makes me wonder if they can even see in colours; beyond their black and white moral views and the blood which their book was written in, of course.

I'll finish with this; 40% of British people believe in Creationism. That means that 2 out of every 5 Brits live in a terrible, un-grandiose world. And they, in their staunch, stubborn ways, get to vote. It's no wonder we're so fucked, ey?