Why America does not believe in Darwin (part 2)

In 2005. testing was conducted in 34 countries on the percentage of adults who accept evolution. U.S. to 33 place, just above Turkey. However, high school students in the U.S. with his understanding of the science and mathematics under every European and Asian nations. These results are clear: the United States build a civilization of ignorance.

Here's what we know. We know that the universe is vastly older than the Bible says. We know that all complex organisms on Earth, including us, evolved from earlier organisms over billions of years. Evidence of this are very numerous.

There is no doubt that different life forms we see around us an expression of the genetic code that is logged in a molecule of DNA, DNA that is experiencing random mutations and that some mutations increase the chances of the organism to survive and multiply in a given environment. This process of mutation and natural selection allowed the isolated populations of animals that interbreeding and over a long period create a new type.

There is no question that human beings evolved from non-human ancestor in this way. As he began the process of evolution, there is a secret, but it is not at least suggests that lurks at the bottom of all divinity. Any fair reading of the biblical journey of creation suggests that God created all animals and plants are what we see today. There is no doubt that the Bible in this regard was wrong. Many Christians, who want to cast doubt on the truth about evolution, argue for something like intelligent design (ID).

Problem ID is that it is nothing more than a program of political and religious advocacy masked as science. Since belief in the biblical God is not in support of our growing scientific understanding of the world, the ID theorists have put his claim to the area of scientific ignorance. Even if we accept that the universe had to be planned, it does suggest that the draftsman of his plan biblical God or that He approves Christianity.

Why America does not believe in Darwin

All the lush life on Earth evolved from simpler forms of life over billions of years. It is a fact that no longer allows it to be about discussing the level of reason. If you suspect that human beings evolved from earlier species, can also suspect that the Sun is a star.

Grant that the sun does not look like an ordinary star, but we know that it is a star that is located relatively close to Earth. Imagine the possible embarrassment if your faith was based on the assumption that the sun is not a star.

Imagine millions of Christians in the United States who spend hundreds of millions of dollars each year to come to fight godless astronomers and astrophysicists in the matter. Imagine how they work passionately to push through his unfounded remarks about the sun in our nation's schools. This is exactly the situation we now have about evolution.

Polls show that more than 50 percent of Americans believe that the entire universe was created 6000 years ago, that dinosaurs lived two by two on Noah's ark, and that the first members of our species were produced from the mud and the mud of the divine, in the garden with a snake that talks. For almost 250 years creationist movement in America is going through various stages, and his latest attempt to introduce so-called school. the theory of intelligent design as a counterpart to the theory of evolution. Concerned about the millions of Americans everyday blunting, author Sam Harris, author of bestseller "The End of The Faith", he turned to fellow book "Letter to a Christian Nation. " Written in the form of letters to American Christians, the book is intended for people of all faiths and worldviews.

Christians who doubt the truth of evolution, they tend to say things like "evolution is a theory, not fact. " Such statements reflect a serious misunderstanding of the sense in which the word "theory" is used in scientific debates. In science, facts must be explained in relation to other facts.

These broader models to explain the "theory ". Theories make predictions and, in principle, can be examined. The phrase "theory of evolution" does not mean that evolution is a fact. One can speak of a "bud theory of disease" or the "theory of gravity, without casting doubt on the disease or gravity as a natural fact.