Going To the Sources: A Critique of The Seattle Debate and Creationist Lecture
Over the last two weeks I attended both a discussion in Seattle between the Discovery Institute and a UW Earth Sciences professor; as well as a lecture in my local community by a Creationist. In this podcast I will discuss both of these and where they both went wrong.
•Going to leave Creationist Claim section out this week. Got plenty of them in the last podcast, and will get more when I critique the local Creationist meeting I went to.
Going To the Sources: A Critique of The Seattle Debate and Creationist Lecture
Here you can find the entire discussion
•Going to leave Creationist Claim section out this week. Got plenty of them in the last podcast, and will get more when I critique the local Creationist meeting I went to.
Going To the Sources: A Critique of The Seattle Debate and Creationist Lecture
Here you can find the entire discussion
posted by Lucretius at 5:33 PM
2 Comments:
Thanks for the kind words sarah, I'm glad to see that some people are able tp realize that their faith and science should not be at odds.
What do you teach as a teacher? I'm guessing some sort of science?
So, you're looking into becoming a high school science teacher? I'm guessing you have a lot of patience, I don't think I could manage to teach a high school class! I wish you the best in achieving your goal!
I can't imagine how odd it must have been in the Creationist crowd. Well, I can get a glimpse (a lot of people at my high school are Young Earthers, but with graduation only 15 days away, or so, hopefully I won't run into as many in college!)
I think it's great that you're going into teaching science, we need some people to teach actual science! That's interesting that a school had an elective on evolution; if someone made that class here they'd probably get run out of town or worse…
I plan to become a professor of physics or math so I guess in regards to teaching we have a similar goal. I'd say that being a high school teacher is more work though! I would hate having to deal with people like… well … a lot of kids my age, all the time.
Oh, you might have an interest in a quote one of my listeners, a retired physicist, sent to me. It's St. Augustine, addressing Creationism: "Usually, even a non-Christian knows something about the earth, [..] and this knowledge he holds as being certain from reason and experience. Now, it is a disgraceful and dangerous thing for an infidel to hear a Christian, presumably giving the meaning of Holy Scripture, talking nonsense on these topics; and we should take all means to prevent such an embarrassing situation, in which people show up vast ignorance in a Christian and laugh it to scorn. The shame is not so much that an ignorant individual is derided, but that people outside the household of faith think our sacred writers held such opinions, and, to the great loss of those for whose salvation we toil, the writers of our Scripture are criticized and rejected as unlearned men. If they find a Christian mistaken in a field which they themselves know well and hear him maintaining his foolish opinions about our books, how are they going to believe those books in matters concerning the resurrection of the dead, the hope of eternal life, and the kingdom of heaven, when they think their pages are full of falsehoods and on facts which they themselves have learnt from experience and the light of reason?"
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