Doubting Darwin - Merged

[_aussieguy55]

Why do you think scientists who have studied anthropology and science believe in God?

Because they believe for non-smart reasons. Smart people believe weird things because they’re better at rationalizing the beliefs they arrived at for emotional, psychological or personal reasons. The No. 1 predictors of anybody’s religious, political or social attitudes are those of their parents and the home where they were raised.
http://www.salon.com/2006/08/23/shermer_2/

The majority of scholars on http://mormonscholarstestify.org/ were born in the church

[_MrStakhanovite]

Matheson for opposing intelligent design theorist material. It's how he found himself on a panel discussion. He is as polemical (or not) a source as any of the routine contributors to talk origins. I'm pretty sure he's personally praised talk origins, in fact.

I didn’t intend to convey some idea that I somehow disapprove of Talk Origins, I just think there is far greater value to be found in learning about the various facets of biology as a whole rather than the sum of reading some ID material and reading the Talk Origins response.

The material produced by Intelligent Design advocates never really turns out to be edifying nor does it even ask good challenging questions. All they manage to do is systematically misinform people for rather overt political and religious reasons. If it is to be used for anything, the best option is to simply use it as a launching point into a much grander project.

I used Matheson’s blog as an example of a conservative Christian taking Meyer apart because I didn’t want this seen as some kind of “conservative thinker” getting dog piled by the “secular humanist status quo”. The guy teaches at a College that would sack him the instant they found out he disagreed with any part of the Westminster Confession of Faith. So for him to be so public with it shows he doesn’t fear reprisal from an institution that makes BYU look moderate.