The Creation vs Evolution debate thread...

[goldorak]

Originally Posted by Neal Stevens

Is it a "gigantic" problem in the US? I don't see how it is really slowing us down. Come on, say it. You want to say we're all stupid
You only believe the earth orbits the sun because that's what you were taught. Did you ever try to prove it for yourself?

Well insofar as orbiting around the sun is a consequence of Newton's universal theory of gravitation and his law of dynamics (F = m* acceleration), yes I have proved that the earth orbits around the sun (the calculation is very easy and you get a differential equation whose solution is an ellipse were one of the focus corresponds to the sun).
Not only that but the result (an elliptic orbit) agrees with the data carefully registered over several years by Tycho Brahe and Kepler. But what did those guys know anyway ?
Do you want to negate newtons law of dynamics and calculus while we are at it ?
Damn I though we had left aristotelian physics in the past.

By the way I never said and I don't think that americans are stupid.
I just don't understand why Evolution theory is such a problem in the states.
You can surely understand my amazement at such a situation.