There is a culture of politeness with staunch advocates of science and religion tiptoeing around one another to avoid a great clash. To suggest that your belief is right and another's is wrong is considered arrogance of the highest order-yet it is that arrogance and that dogmatism that have driven all scientific and technological progress and, ironically, also launched nearly all of mankind's wars. So let's have at it: the armies of empiricism at the fortress of faith.
Silly isn't it. The difference is that dogmatic belief in evolution is based on evidence. There's massive, great, crashing evidence, whereas the evidence for a "creator" is based on zilch, unless faith should be given as much weight in thought process as evidence.
Religion is tragic because it's such a waste of a good mind. The world is a wonderful place and so is the gift of understanding. Filling children's minds (and creating "blind followers" as adults) with medieval rubbish that gets in the way of true understanding and free thought is genuinely sad and has long term effects.
Minds filleed with false alternatives to what we know to be true is nothing more than a modern form of the inquisition. Accept or suffer? 50% of american voters said to believe in literally in adam & Eve and that the world was created in six days less than ten thousand years ago. Do you see the problem there--dogmatic belief through conditioning.
Clearly that is not only false, it's tragically false because it is a direct result of filling up young minds not just with falsehoods but ludicrous falsehoods that get in the way of the wonder of true understanding.
The only place in the world that equals the US in religious zealotry is the middle east and the only country that reaches blind faith in percentages of population is IRAN.
Religion, creation, and the stupidity of force feeding religion to the general population under the cover of law as the our society is doing now is the mental equivalent of a computer virus of the brain. Karl Marx was only right about one thing: religion is the opiate of the masses.
Professing a belief in religion and "god" is like wearing a stupid sign around your neck.
As one comedian says HERE'S YOUR SIGN:
STUPID
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