was thinking about the Pew Research article on Evolve vs Create...
http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1105/darwin-debate-religion-evolution
I was surprised at the graph... the Catholics are the most evolutionary, AND, the more PROTESTant you are, the more Creationist you are... think about that... in fact, look at the whole graph... the older the organized religious group is, the more evolutionary it is...
I guess to be a creationist takes a newer zeal... newness in religion probably means insecurity... and more denial... established religions can afford to be less in denial of reality...
humans are such strange animals... and makes me think back to my Twilight Zone opening before... the imagination is so powerful... :)
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I don't think newness means insecurity and denial. Perhaps it just means you still have that spiritual high that gives you faith in the unseen. I don't think I would call that denial.
ReplyDeleteYnB... appreciate your comment... isn't that graph wild tho... look at it... it is almost in perfect chronological order...
ReplyDeletefaith is blind... it has to be... that is why it is called faith and not science...
when people disagree, say on evolution... either evolution is true or it isn't... if it is true and you don't accept evolution, then how are you with respect to reality??? are you in acceptance of reality or in denial???
Denial is a defense mechanism postulated by Sigmund Freud, in which a person is faced with a fact that is too uncomfortable to accept and rejects it instead, insisting that it is not true despite what may be overwhelming evidence.
There are no facts, only interpretations. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
ReplyDeleteReality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. ~Albert Einstein