Here is a long article titled Catholicism and Evolution which covers a lot of ground and seems pretty accurate. The interesting thing though is that this is published at Islam Online. Weird huh?
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tags: Stephen Fry on Catholicism, Intelligence Squared Debate,
Via Massimo Pigliucci, I just read Gary Gutting's defense of his Catholic faith. Here's the opening:
The vice-chancellor of the Australian Catholic University has compared atheists to Biblical plagues, which is quite nice of him.
Polish MEP calls for 'scholarly debate' on evolution:
In fact, many believers of Islam are just as hostile to Evolution as the fundamentalist Christians. See here:
http://www.islam-online.net/servlet/Satellite?pagename=IslamOnline-Engl…
yes. partly that's because they're stupid (e.g., check the literacy rates in muslim countries). evolution isn't as intuitively appealing as many ppl assume....
Problem with evolution is that it's so easily portrayed as Evil Godless Atheist {Capitalist;Communist (delete whichever is inappropriate)} Scientists trying to undermine the authority of Holy {insert religion of choice}. It's not saying much that the only religion that really incorporates any of the underlying concepts of evolution is Scientology...
It's the confusion of Darwinism with *Social* Darwinism that turns people off.
Evolution is often wrongly associated with a hierarchical "Great Chain of Being" worldview (which many people *do* seem to think it represents). People from minorities often assume evolution is used by the white world to justify its militarism and paternalism (ahem, imperialism), as well as racism. So they can be a little hesitant to accept it.
I've met African-Americans who are hostile to evolution because they know that whites use it to think "blacks are like monkeys, so we can hate/ignore them freely." White *scientists* might not say this, but the white hoi polloi sure do.
Of course, Darwinian fitness is better defined by who leaves the most viable offspring. By that measure, the white world is lagging a bit. Maybe La Raza will become Darwinist. After all, turnabout is fairplay.