varusword75 wrote:
bsphil,
And once again you prove what a failure our public schools have been.
Thread hijack: Varus, you're Southern Baptist so I need your opinion here. Ok, no I don't, but it'll keep the conversation going. I was chatting with a friend of mine whose family is very religious. They are Southern Baptists, and she went to a Christian school all through elementary, middle, and high school. After going to college she mostly fell out with the religion itself. But while talking the other day I mentioned some offhand comment about evolution, and she said "I don't believe in it."
I blinked. This is a well-educated and thoughtful young woman attending the third largest campus in the country. She's liberal in some views (medical care, the economy, insurance, gay marriage) and conservative in others (abortion, gun control); but she's not overtly religious (only goes when at home). But she admitted that she thinks evolution is wrong, the world is only 6000 years old, and carbon dating is incorrect or made-up (not sure which). It blew my mind, since she's in a science major.
Do you believe all these ideas as well? She didn't go to a public school, but her ideas threw me for a loop because I've never met someone my own age with them. Not even my own very religious friends. I couldn't really understand how she could deny scientific theory and the study of elements when they factored into her choice of study and career.