Comments on: Real Science vs. Creation Science

By: Jim R

Jim R — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 03:39:21 +0000

I actually consider myself a Bible believer but do appreciate some humor about it all.
We make fun of the evolutionist too you know.
If you can’t laugh at it all then you’ve got a problem.

By: doug livesey

doug livesey — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 16:36:59 +0000

Aah!
I need to know the result of the mono/polyculture research!

By: Ron Britton

Ron Britton — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 09:30:11 +0000

That’s a good observation. I think it’s the enormity of the unknown that frightens them. If you ask a creationist how chlorophyl actually does the conversion from light to food, he’d probably say “I don’t know” and not have a reaction, because that’s a small unknown (to him). Ask him how old the Universe is or how humans came to exist, and he’ll run to Skydaddy, because those are big questions with big, scary unknowns attached (or the answers that he is told by scientists are too scary to contemplate).

I wonder how much of that is just innate, luck-of-the-draw, genetics that creates the two personality types: the scared of the unknown and the excited by the unknown. And how strong is the correlation between people who naturally are scared of the unknown and religion? I don’t know. That’s an exciting question!

By: Sergeant Zim

Sergeant Zim — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 09:09:10 +0000

From what I’ve seen, the difference is a very basic approach to how we see the world. The Creationist says “I don’t know” – whatever it is, and it frightens them – driving them into the arms of whoever will tell them a comfy story about how it doesn’t matter, they are still so *special*…

The Scientist, OTOH, says “I don’t know” and it excites them, makes them want to find out.

By: Ron Britton

Ron Britton — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 21:37:51 +0000

I think what’s going on is that they need the simplicity and safety of the tiny universe that Biblical literalism provides. Anything that threatens that fantasy risks popping their little bubble and forcing them into the giant, scary world of reality.

By: Vaguely Frightened

Vaguely Frightened — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 20:43:45 +0000

I wonder, do fundies simply fear “not knowing”? Could that be what really separates them from us? Hmmm… I don’t know.