The Creation vs Evolution debate thread...

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Originally Posted by Skybird

Scientific theories describe a relative perspective of temporary validity.
Religious claims pretend to be absolute.

Science is a constant process.
Religion is a frozen (pretended) end-status.

Science asks questions.
Religion claims to know all answers without ever needing to ask questions. It even declares asking questions a sin and heresy. You should not want to know, you should just beolieve - the dogma of the religion, that is.

Just believing you can whatever you want, nobody must care as long as you keep it private. In religion, if you blindly believe the right things you are virtuous. In science, you have to work for evidence. If you do not, you are not serious.

Sounds very much like a religious dogma to me. You put your faith into science and count or rather hope they are correct. Other put their faith in a book, in a scroll or verbal transmitted legends, or history. Button line is, it makes no difference. It is all about faith or believe in one system or construct or another.

Oh, and just for the record: You might want to fact check your first sentence. It is the popular believe that it is in constant motion and non rigid. Unfortunately that is not always true. Especially heavy contested theories can be extremely rigid and outright hostile towards opponents, see Global Warming debate, or rather non debate for examples. The theory of creationism is another example of outright hostility and close mindedness, the same attributes that are slapped on religious believers, by the way.
Nice hypocrisy you got there..