Posted: Nov 16, 2014 3:31 pm
Shrunk wrote:Yeah. YEC's like Ken Ham are kicking them to the curb. If you'll forgive the tangent, it's kind of like how leftist politicians here in Canada keep losing by trying to adopt more centre-right policies and rhetoric in order to convince people they are "moderates." The IDiots think they can attract followers by gussying their creationism up in science-y looking garb. But that just drives away their core constituency, who prefer their creationism full-on stupid. Polysyllabic nonsense like "irreducible complexity" just causes the typical creationist a headache. Why bother with all that, when all you need is right there in the Bible?
For similar reasons, the "theistic evolutionists" are being ignored even more than the IDiots.
I think that's not entirely true. Theistic evolution has become a pretty much default position for non creation religious. The pope recent statements being just the most visible in recent time. I don't mind it however. If you believe in a god and accept that nature actually functions as we see it then theistic evolution is at least self consistent (or not ruled out).