Couldn't Have Said It Better Myself
Via P.Z. Myers, an untouched photo of a real sign on a real church in Arkansas:
This is why saying you don't "believe" in evolution is like saying you don't "believe" in gravity. Facts don't go away no matter how much faith claims otherwise.
This is why facts always trump faith, except in the minds of the faithful.
And this is why any religious believer who claims to be capable of rational thought and basic logical reasoning should be laughed out of the room.
Cross-posted at They Gave Us A Republic ....
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Were the Fundamentalists not so verbosely ignorant, we might not have noticed the evolutionary plateau at which they are stuck.
Sorry for the wrong-headed church sign.
Faith is the gap/jump between logic and evidence-- and the inferences we must often draw. On the one hand, the need for faith is reduced by additional evidence and facts. On the one hand, one's confidence in any given article of faith is bolstered by evidence-- or the evidence encourages one to modify his faith.
Blind faith stems from a lack of logic and reason-- and implies a desire to ignore such.
As for evolution, it is fact. As for Evolution (as an "explanation" for the development of life), it requires a ton of faith to jump from the limited evidences to the conclusion. Many don't have faith in Evolution; many others have faith in Evolution; others have blind faith in Evolution.
What's not clear is whether the church recognizes the irony - did they mean it "our" way, or "their" way? No way to tell from the available evidence.
I guess it's just unintentional truth! That seems the most likely explanation.
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