Funny, but what we (psychology teachers) tend to do is to teach people that common sense is rarely a good guide to truth....
-- Marc Carter, PhD Associate Professor and Chair Department of Psychology College of Arts & Sciences Baker University -- > -----Original Message----- > From: Shearon, Tim [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 1:20 PM > To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) > Subject: RE: [tips] Charles Darwin, for free > > Stephen > Did you watch the video(s)? It is kind of standard, to use > their words, "pithy examples that disprove evolution". Of > course they ask loaded questions and show a complete lack of > understanding for geological time- "Can you imagine that a > male dog evolved and that he suddenly had vision where he had > never had it before? It would only work if he could also find > a female. Which would have to have evolved by chance at the > same time and place. Without that female he is a dead dog!" > > That is their evidence against it. It is a familiar strategy- > See- it doesn't make sense. While, of course, making > ridiculous assertions and asking silly nonsensical questions- > "Did you know that God gave us 6 senses? The sixth sense is > common sense! And you just have to use your common sense to > refute this silly theory!" That's pretty close to a quote. > BTW- Darwin was a sad old man who lost his daughter. He was > in the ministry but was never "saved" (The quote is, "He was > never one of us.". So when his daughter died, he became very > bitter and took it out on the church by devising this silly > fairly tale to distract people in order to "get even with > God". Wow. How can you not believe. If it is difficult or not > "common sense" it can't be true!! So the whole virgin birth, > resurrection and magical man in the sky thing. That is just > common sense, I guess. > Tim > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 9:02 AM > To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) > Subject: [tips] Charles Darwin, for free > > Coming to a campus near you: a free copy of _On the Origin of Species_ > > But look who's doing the giving: Living Waters, a Christian > evangelical organization. > http://www.livingwaters.com/index.php?option=com_content&ta > sk=view&id=383 > or > http://tinyurl.com/m59ovv > > (See also the video "Using common sense to debunk evolution" > at http://www.livingwaters.com/ ) > > Is that weird or what? Apparently they feel that OOP is so > self- evidently ridiculous that merely putting it in peoples' > hands is enough to convince them to reject evolution. > > Risky tactic. > > LA Times reports on this remarkable project at > http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2009/11/creationists- > charles-darwin-origin-of-species.html > or > http://tinyurl.com/yhym56w > > Stephen > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Stephen L. Black, Ph.D. > Professor of Psychology, Emeritus > Bishop's University > e-mail: [email protected] > 2600 College St. > Sherbrooke QC J1M 1Z7 > Canada > -------------------------------------------------------------- > --------- > > --- > To make changes to your subscription contact: > > Bill Southerly ([email protected]) > > --- > To make changes to your subscription contact: > > Bill Southerly ([email protected]) > The information contained in this e-mail and any attachments thereto ("e-mail") is sent by Baker University ("BU") and is intended to be confidential and for the use of only the individual or entity named above. The information may be protected by federal and state privacy and disclosures acts or other legal rules. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are notified that retention, dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error please immediately notify Baker University by email reply and immediately and permanently delete this e-mail message and any attachments thereto. Thank you. --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([email protected])
