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elinjo -the debate between creationism versus evolution really only exists

in continental USA.

And only amongst laypeople, despite the insistence of some that they have people from scientific disciplines on their side. In all other parts of the world there is no such debate. Fundamentalist Christians have created what is in effect a strawman type of adversary in a misconstrued version of evolution that represents very little of the real scientific theory. They are in effect debating something they have created.   

posted by gomedome on March 5, 2009 at 7:32 PM | link to this | reply

It's an eye-opener reading your blog; in my innocence/ignorance I thought that evolution was a generally accepted theory. However it appears that in your part of the world it's still at hotly debated issue.

posted by elinjo on March 5, 2009 at 10:45 AM | link to this | reply

Re: quite correct

Xeno-x - Typical of the arguments we are routinely subjected to are the focus on difficult areas of evolution, an erroneous belief that the fossil record does not contain transitional fossils and an inane belief that until Darwin's hypothesized "missing link" is irrefutably demonstrated to exist, that the entire scientific theory is invalid. The most puzzling part of their conclusions however is the notion that evolution offers an explanation of how life began when it clearly does not. This misconception alone is the entire basis of their willingness to discredit it as they pit it directly against creationist beliefs.

When all is said and done, there is no refuting that life forms have changed, become extinct and emerged over the span of the earth's history, fairy tales do not explain these realities away.

posted by gomedome on March 5, 2009 at 9:00 AM | link to this | reply

quite correct

posted by Xeno-x on March 5, 2009 at 8:49 AM | link to this | reply