Support for Creationism reaches new low

[Dill]

(07-13-2017, 03:08 PM)Johnny Cupcakes Wrote: You're right...evolution and a lack of belief in a god do not have to be tied together, but if you believe the scientific fact of evolution, it's pretty damned difficult to go along with the Genesis story of creation.  There just isn't room left in there for evolution, and a lot of it is directly contradictory.  It's easier to believe in both if you don't take the Bible completely literally though....

True, literal interpretations of the Bible have to give way.

The big beef religious people have against evolution is that it leaves them alone in a universe where change is undirected, random, contingent.

I think that syncretizing creationism and evolution usually retains the notion of intelligent design and just smuggles it into those places where the theory is still murky.