re: #73 Sol Berdinowitz

It’s part of America these days - making a business by continuing fighting the “culture war”.

For example, the Payson, Arizona local news paper (now all electronic, I think) has a never ending run of editorials and letters on evolution.

So does the Baton Rouge, LA local outlet - The Advocate, but with more local creationists. Here’s the latest entry:

Letter: Evolution is its own religion

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Third, and most important, it appears to me that Forrest is actually doing exactly what she says she is trying to prevent — that is advocating that government schools, funded by the taxpayers of all presuppositional viewpoints, should teach as science a view of origins and developmental processes that require commitment to one religious view.

Yes, I said religious view.

Humanistic evolutional theory has the characteristics of a religion. Carl Sagan in his best-selling “Cosmos” begins with these words: “The cosmos is all there is or ever will be.”

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And so on. Often there are a few bright commenters who show up to these articles and try to set the record straight, but that is not going to stop the news/entertainment outlets from running editorials/letters that are just plain ignorant.

People hold their religious views because of deep seated emotional needs. To give these up is usually too much to ask, and when people do change it can lead to an identity crisis.

It’s a long, hard slog to fight the old worldviews, no matter how outdated they are.