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Yeah, that's the thought of the day: It's not a matter of faith; you either understand it or you don't.
"Evolution is nothing more than a fairly simple way of understanding what is unquestionably happening. You don't believe in it — you either understand it or you don't. But pretending evolution is a matter of faith can be a clever way to hijack the conversation, and pit it in a false duality against religion. And that's how we end up with people decrying evolution, even as they eat their strawberries and pet their dogs, because they've been led to believe faith can only be held in one or the other." -Keith Blanchard
theweek.com/article/index/2656…
He goes on to give the 10 second tour in lay-speak, although there are definitely better resources for that... but the underscoring point is certainly well-put.
"Evolution is nothing more than a fairly simple way of understanding what is unquestionably happening. You don't believe in it — you either understand it or you don't. But pretending evolution is a matter of faith can be a clever way to hijack the conversation, and pit it in a false duality against religion. And that's how we end up with people decrying evolution, even as they eat their strawberries and pet their dogs, because they've been led to believe faith can only be held in one or the other." -Keith Blanchard
theweek.com/article/index/2656…
He goes on to give the 10 second tour in lay-speak, although there are definitely better resources for that... but the underscoring point is certainly well-put.
Not Enough Radical Muslims
There's a disturbing trend of lexical dishonesty. To be fair, it's not deliberate - most people engaging in it are rather ignorant of the fact that it's happening. Part of the problem is simply that we (humans) feel the need to have convenient terms of aggrandizement, and when they are difficult to find, our brain's lazy word-association powers start to coopt terms that don't really mean what they intend.
Case in point: over the past decade or so, there's been an enormous number of headlines, from blogs to well-established news publications, denouncing the dangers of "fundamentalist" religion. But to quote Inigo, "You keep using that word. I
Trumping up the Evangelical Vote
Let's face it, Trump wouldn't know a bible if one smacked him across the face. His pathetic attempts to appeal to the evangelical vote have become infamous jokes and memes. Before visiting churches in order to garner votes, the last time he saw the inside of a church was probably when he was getting married to his third mail order bride. As it turns out, Trump didn't have to humiliate himself to get the evangelical vote after all. Despite there being several candidates this year who either were clergy (Huckabee) or sons of clergy (Cruz), and plenty with serious evangelical street cred (Carson, Perry and Santorum), the lion's share of evangeli
Irony
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2016/01/25/creator-of-anti-planned-parenthood-videos-faces-felony-charge/
For (what seems like) ages now, the "Center for Medical Progress" has been claiming that Planned Parenthood was secretly trafficking in human embryos for profit, and their "under cover" footage has made its way, in various states of edit, all over the internet, managing even to play center stage in Republican presidential debates. Texas assigned various state groups, including the Houston DA and the Rangers, to investigate any criminal wrong-doing on the part of Planned Parenthood. A grand jury in Houston was subsequen
Accepting Progress
In 2010, 48% of Americans opposed gay marriage, while only 42% favored allowing homosexuals to marry (according to Pew Research). Only five years later, that trend has completely reversed: only 39% oppose it today, vs. 55% favor allowing it. The various anti-gay marriage lawsuits started by conservatives to once and for all shut down state-level gay marriage, completely backfired when the Supreme Court made gay marriage the law of the land. Instead of solidifying sentiment against gay marriage, as conservatives had hoped, the prolonged media exposure created a national dialog that resulted in the public being more sympathetic to the fairness
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Very well said 