Here’s a little comic from the creationist hub that is Answers in Genesis, and as you can see, the cartoonist seems deeply confused as to what believing in science actually means. He seems to think that so long as you use technology in your every day life, you must somehow be a strong believer in the principles of science. By that logic, even a caveman using a lighter is “pro science”.
For most modern creationists, science is a relationship of convenience; they like things like antibiotics, automobiles, lasers, and computers, even though they reject any scientific findings which contradict their pre-supposed conclusions. As soon as they hear something they don’t like, or that puts their paper thin arguments to the test, they instantly reject/ignore it. This is precisely WHY they are accused of not believing in science, they pick and choose what they like, and attack any findings that questions their stupid beliefs about the origins of the Universe.
This comic highlights the serious difficulty secularists face when trying to argue the merits of science with a creationist: they have absolutely no idea that the science needed to create things as antibiotics or microwaves instantly disproves their childish idea that God created the Earth and all the animals as they appear today some 6000 years ago.
Meanwhile, these people enjoy the luxuries of our ever increasing scientific understanding of the natural world while simultaneously undermining it with the annoying insistence that only the supernatural can explain the complexity of life. It’s not necessary to “believe” in science to benefit from it; after all, the vaccines that I got as a child to protect me from measles and other deadly viruses worked, despite my ignorance.
So don’t pat yourselves on the back for benefiting from the advances in science, dear creationists, and don’t start thinking that simply because you live in the information age, you’re automatically well informed. You aren’t, and it shows.
December 4th, 2009 at 1:52 pm
All science that is handy and makes their lives easier; they keep. All science that contradicts their delusions; they reject. Simple.
December 4th, 2009 at 2:27 pm
This makes total sense, since they also cherry-pick the bible, well mainly they have their pastors or leaders, do it for them. Most Christians never read the bible, just as they never study Science. If they did both, we’d have no more Christians. Aww, wouldn’t that be a beautiful world!
I challenge all Christians to read all the passages at biblegod.org and to read the book “God Hates You. Hate Him Back”. The latter is available on Amazon. Then, if you make it through that, go on to read Richard Dawkins’ “God Delusion”, “The Selfish Gene”, and “The Greatest Show On Earth” plus Christopher Hitchens’ “God Is Not Great”.
December 4th, 2009 at 5:19 pm
I was confused when I read this comic too, but hey props to some delusional religions like the amish baptists who don’t use any modern technology, too bad this is on the internet so they can’t read this though.
December 4th, 2009 at 6:18 pm
Go to the website and read threw the Top 10 myths about Creation. It’s pretty entertaining to hear them say they believe in science as long as it follows Gods word in the Bible.
December 5th, 2009 at 11:40 am
Robert Heinlein had something interesting to say about this…
“We define thinking as integrating data and arriving at correct answers. Look around you. Most people do that stunt just well enough to get to the corner store and back without breaking a leg. If the average man thinks at all, he does silly things like generalizing from a single datum. He uses one-valued logic. If he is exceptionally bright, he may use two-valued, ‘either-or’ logic to arrive at his wrong answers. If he is hungry, hurt, or personally interested in the answer, he can’t use ANY sort of logic, and will discard an observed fact as blithely as he will stake his life on a piece of wishful thinking. He uses the technical miracles created by superior men without wonder or surprise, as a kitten accepts a bowl of milk. Far from ASPIRING to higher reasoning, he is NOT EVEN AWARE that higher reasoning EXISTS… yet he classes his own mental process as being of the same sort as the genius of an Einstein. Man is not a rational animal; he is a rationalizing animal.”
“For explanations of a universe that confuses him, he seizes onto numerology, astrology, hysterical religions, and other fancy ways to go crazy. Having accepted such glorified nonsense, facts make no impression on him, even if at the cost of his own life. Joe, one of the hardest things to believe is the abysmal depth of human stupidity.” ~ Robert A. Heinlein – Kettle Belly Baldwin in Gulf from Assignment in Eternity
December 5th, 2009 at 10:17 pm
With a 1.33ghz processor he might as well be living in Jesus’ time.
December 8th, 2009 at 7:19 am
‘we accepted the products of science; we rejected its methods.’
- carl sagan from cosmos
December 8th, 2009 at 7:56 am
Did Ed invent laser eye surgery? Or the internet? or the microprocessor?
No.
Scientists, i. e. people who beleive in evolution invented those things.
December 9th, 2009 at 12:44 pm
@joe
Yeah that struck me as well. Plus he has a digital internet connection
August 20th, 2010 at 1:54 am
I’ve observed after many conversations with atheist that they often confuse religion with the belief that there might be intelligent design to the universe. They are not the same.
Same as creationist and religion. Just because one creationist believes the earth is only 6000 years old doesn’t mean that everyone who believes in intelligent design does.
Also the mistake is often made that because science can figure out certain phenomenon and re-create is in of itself proof that there is no higher power or conscious out there. Just because science can now create very basic forms of life in a lab doesn’t disprove intelligent design.
I’ve often found that atheist themselves supporting scientific data (Note that I don’t say scientific proof.) that may argue for intelligent design.
In the end, don’t confuse Christianity with the belief of some type of universal consciouses.