Originally posted by: blackllotus
Originally posted by: zuljinAF
I will stand by my point though that any curriculum that forces a student to believe that we all evolved from a monkey is just as wrong as any curriculum that says we all appeared one day just as we are. Both sides need to be open minded and understand what they see to be true is not what everyone sees to be true.
Middle Ground fallacy
Sorry for the tangent...
From the Middle Ground Fallacy link:
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Examples of Middle Ground
Some people claim that God is all powerful, all knowing, and all good. Other people claim that God does not exist at all. Now, it seems reasonable to accept a position somewhere in the middle. So, it is likely that God exists, but that he is only very powerful, very knowing, and very good. That seems right to me.
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I don't know who wrote that web page, but the middle ground is often not the "correct" or best choice simply because not all viewpoints are equal. In the example cited, the two extremes are both based on faith, God does or doesn't exist. Middle ground there is fine since neither is provable.
But the middle ground on man's existence is not somewhere between creationism and evolution. On the creationism side, the only argument is belief. Evolution, as has been stated in this thread ad nauseum, is based on evidence. The middle ground between fantasy and facts is not a little of both. You cannot dilute fact with conjecture. My example:
Alice believes the tooth fairy put the dollar under her pillow because she has been told by other people that that is how the money got there. Alice's older brother David knows it was their mother that put the money there because he saw her do it while Alice was sleeping. Rover, Alice's dog, who doesn't know whether or not the tooth fairy exists, thinks that Alice's mother must have let the tooth fairy into the house to leave the money. Middle ground here is just as unacceptable as one of the extremes because anything other than the facts of what happened is simply incorrect.
End Tangent.
Last question: if a person doesn't accept evolution, but doesn't believe the earth is 6000 years old, then what other theory/guess/conjecture/belief exists to explain how man arrived in our current form? If a religious person believes god started the universe billions of years ago, and the earth is millions of years old...how did man develop? The earth cooled, plants sprouted, and then people started walking around? I'm serious, if not evolution from some lower form of life, then where/how?