Chris Hyland
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Joined: Jan. 2006
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| Quote | | My belief is that most scientists, in general, don't give these issues much real thought at all. |
Er, biologists do it's quite important it tends to come up quite often in meetings and such.
| Quote | | I believe the core groups such as NCSE, etc. are thoroughly and completely convinced beyond any doubt whatsoever that evolution (microbe to man) is a fact. |
That's what most biologists think to.
| Quote | | The majority of scientists are materialists |
I'd like to see a survey of biologists religious beliefs where the answers were 'believe in God', 'believe in God some of the time', 'agnostic/atheist', and 'who even gives a crap why don't you ask me something important and stop wasting my time?' You'd find the atheist vote shrinks quite considerably.
| Quote | | so when a place like NCSE tells them that the only reason why people doubt evolution is due to fanatical religious beliefs, they would have no reason to question it |
I've seen plenty of evidence that the majority of scientists who question evolution do so due to religious beliefs. What is much more important to scientists is that creationists are wrong.
| Quote | | Certainly, biologists go nuts about the topic because it hits so close to home and they believe their entire world would fold if common descent were not a "fact". |
Biologists tend to have strong reactions to Intelligent design folk because a) the ID people try to completely bypass the scientific process and and get their theories taught in schools etc, and b) because creationists routinely paint biologists as part of a corrupt atheist conspiracy.
| Quote | | in reality, I still see very little necessity in believing that every organism on the face of the earth evolved from a flippin' little microbe. |
Well the main reason is because they think that's what the evidence points to.
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