Thursday, September 5, 2019

I answered a question about magical creationism.

"Is creationism scientific?"

Scientists, including the rare religious scientists, know they can't invoke supernatural magic to explain the natural world.

Magical creationism is a supernatural fantasy that has zero evidence. It's anti-science.

Here is a quote about why religious ideas like creationism do not belong in science classrooms:

"Creation science has not entered the curriculum for a reason so simple and so basic that we often forget to mention it: because it is false, and because good teachers understand why it is false. What could be more destructive of that most fragile yet most precious commodity in our entire intellectual heritage—good teaching—than a bill forcing our honorable teachers to sully their sacred trust by granting equal treatment to a doctrine not only known to be false, but calculated to undermine any general understanding of science as an enterprise?"
-- Stephen Jay Gould

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