"Theistic evolutionists are creationists, pure and simple; they differ from straight fundamentalist creationists only in how much of life God was involved in creating, ranging from those who think God set the whole plan in motion, knowing it would culminate in that most awesome of species, US, to those who think that God tinkered with mutations to create the right species (see the philosophical work of Elliott Sober), to those who think that humans are set apart from other species because God inserted a soul in our lineage (that’s the official view of the Vatican). That is being anti-evolution as scientists understand it, since we see evolution as a naturalistic process that has nothing to do with deities. Sadly, far more Americans are theistic evolutionists than naturalistic evolutionists: the proportions among all Americans are 38% to 16% respectively (40% are straight creationists, 6% are unsure). We have a long way to go."
-- Jerry Coyne
I never did understand the magical soul bullshit. Apparently the thing is invisible. Where does the thing exist in a human ape? And what kind of magic wand was used to insert it? The idea is when a human ape drops dead the soul magically travels to a magical hell or a magical heaven. Then the soul is tortured by a loving god or goes insane from eternal boredom in the heaven thing.
Paradise Polled: Americans and the Afterlife
"A 2005 PSRA/Newsweek poll found that 67% believed that the person’s soul goes to heaven or hell, 13% that the soul lives in some sort of spiritual realm, 6% that it’s all over, and 5% that the soul is reincarnated. A 2010 60 Minutes/Vanity Fair poll found that 65% of Americans believed that people go to heaven, hell or purgatory after death, 7% believed they go to another dimension, 6% believed they are reborn on earth, and 2% believed they become ghosts. Just 13% did not believe there is any afterlife, and 7% didn’t know."
Only 13% of Americans are not insane. This is not a good thing. It means 87% of Americans are batshit crazy. I means 87% of Americans are gullible cowardly morons who want to throw out all of reality.
"Darwin was the first to use data from nature to convince people that evolution is true, and his idea of natural selection was truly novel. It testifies to his genius that the concept of natural theology, accepted by most educated Westerners before 1859, was vanquished within only a few years by a single five-hundred-page book. On the Origin of Species turned the mysteries of life's diversity from mythology into genuine science." -- Jerry Coyne
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