PoliticalChic
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"Denial of scientific evidence is a very bad thing."Well, not to derail the thread but in passing I'll mention that poofing species into existence is a fundamental misreading of the Bible. It's not Christianity's fault, it's institutional doctrine much like was pushed by the Church in the Middle Ages.
This particular version of it is dangerous though. Denial of scientific evidence is a very bad thing. It's bad for everyone, including the deniers. It smacks of Christian Science, where practitioners refuse to see a doctor because they claim faith cures all ills. The fundies aren't quite that bad, but some of them trend in the same direction.
Are you pretending that there is actual evidence?
The Royal Society conference exposed the fact that there isn't evidence.
"The new mechanisms offered by the critics of neo-Darwinism at the conference — whether treated as part of an extended neo-Darwinian synthesis or as the basis of a fundamentally new theory of evolution — did not attempt to explain how the information necessary to generating genuine novelty might have arisen. Instead, the mechanisms that were discussed produce at best minor microevolutionary changes, such as changes in wing coloration of butterflies or the celebrated polymorphisms of stickleback fish."

Why the Royal Society Meeting Mattered, in a Nutshell | Evolution News
The proceedings confirmed something that advocates of intelligent design, including Stephen Meyer and others, have been saying for years.

Other scientists have admitted why they advance the hoax:
Professor Richard Lewontin, a geneticist (and self-proclaimed Marxist), is certainly one of the world’s leaders in evolutionary biology. He wrote this very revealing comment:
“‘We take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs, in spite of its failure to fulfill many of its extravagant promises of health and life, in spite of the tolerance of the scientific community for unsubstantiated just-so stories, because we have a prior commitment, a commitment to materialism.” Lewontin explains why one must accept absurdities: “…we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door.”
Why do you fear admitting that there may be a God?