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Comment by James M. Martin on September 26, 2011 at 7:21am

@Hania: You don't have so many religious fundamentalists is probably the reason we have the anti-science element here that is absent in Polish religion.  Here, the fundamentalists feel they have to push their dogma and science is seen as an obstacle.  The evangelicals believe the earth came into existence only 6,000 or so years ago (I think it was a European theologian who calculated the date, but as he used Biblical "facts" to support his theory, he obviously employed circular reasoning in the process).  That the earth began 6,000 years ago flies in the face of the scientific evidence, which suggests that the earth is many millions of years old.  This contradiction is probably what leads to the conflict.  The evangelicals, as well as other Christians, think creationism should be taught side by side with evolution in science classes!  Some evangelicals actually claim that fossils were "put into the earth by God just to fool the Darwinists."  Personally, I don't see how you can believe in both evolution and "God."  They are mutually inconsistent.

Comment by Hania Uscka-Wehlou on September 26, 2011 at 2:15am

I watched "Religulous" yesterday. I am a (strong) atheist, but I was raised in catholic Poland and used to believe in the catholic god + Jesus when I was very young. There are several striking differences between christians in Poland and christians in the USA. I have never ever met a single person from Poland who would not believe in evolution (is it really something you can BELIEVE or not BELIEVE? There is a lot of hard scientific evidence for evolution). The creation story from the Bible is (in Poland) always commented as something you have to see as a symbol (of triggering the Big Bang by god?). This is why there is no such a clear contradiction between religion and science in Poland. I know a lot of Polish people who are scientists and believe in god. I wonder where the difference in the attitude towards science in religious people in the USA and Poland comes from. Any idea?

Comment by Aaron Wiitanen on September 15, 2011 at 12:37am

I wish I knew about that station when I lived down there. Is it a good production??

Comment by Bryon on September 15, 2011 at 12:35am

http://www.wlrn.org/radio/programs/topical-currents/archive/evoluti...

Comment by Bryon on September 15, 2011 at 12:35am

This is the link on RDF.

Comment by Steph S. on September 14, 2011 at 10:55pm

Thanks so much!

Comment by Secular Forces 2013 on September 14, 2011 at 10:28pm

http://www.wlrn.org/radio/programs/topical-currents/archive/evoluti...

mp3 link within url; just right click save target etc..
@45:00 LOL
oh man he sounds like Jon Lennon for a sec there! Wild!
so good. indeed.

Comment by Steph S. on September 14, 2011 at 5:08pm

Do you have a link to the NPR program you listened to Atheist Voyager?

Comment by Aiden on September 9, 2011 at 4:56am

Richard Dawkins will be speaking at Randolph College in Lynchburg on Wednesday October 5, 7:30pm - 8:30pm in the Smith Hall Theatre.

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=161851447214579&ref=nf

The tickets for this event are free and will be available to the Randolph College community at the Main Hall Reception Desk beginning Tuesday, September 6 at noon. Tickets will offered to the Randolph community exclusively from September 6 – September 11. Tickets will be available to the general public beginning September 12.

Comment by annet on September 8, 2011 at 12:43am

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