It isn't offensive - simply disappointing.
I have spent quite some time (both on this forum and to many in person) helping others to overcome their difficulties or misunderstandings with evolution. Science is not just about learning, but teaching as well, and since I am fortunate to have spent more time learning about evolution than most could reasonably consider, I feel I have an obligation to teach and spread the knowledge that I have learned.
It follows that when I see somebody taking something as beautiful as the knowledge we have gained through evolution, something which I view with utmost respect and sincerity, and using it as cheap shot to attack somebody’s religious beliefs by mocking a symbol that doesn’t even have anything to do with creationism, it makes me very disappointed and sad. Science is here to help us understand things, not to belittle those who think differently. Darwin would be rolling in his grave.
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I don't see Christians with a picture of Darwin's face with a penis photoshopped onto his forehead. It really is a cheap shot, naffa, it really is. Keep it there if you feel that it is right.
Wow, massive misunderstanding here. The Darwin fish isn't meant as an insult, not it's creation, nor in it's use by me. I would never intentionally 'cheap shot' religion as it were, even if I am fundamentally opposed to it's existence. It's a symbol for scientific evolution over creationism, I suppose it is mocking, slightly, but I believe creationism to be nonsense. If you don't think there are Christians that mock Darwin, or even the Darwin fish, then you're wrong because they do.
If you take the fish at it's literal meaning (which I have discovered, upon researching) 'Jesus Christ, God's son, saviour' then you're quite right, it doesn't
literally have anything to do with creationism. When proclaiming belief in the sanctity of Christ, however, you must
by default proclaim belief in that of his teachings and the bible, bother of which
are fierce advocates and teachers of creationism.
However, when I created the sig, I didn't intend the symbol to be interpreted as a cheap shot, a means of devaluing Christianity, simply to demonstrate my anti theism. But if you really want me to change it, I will do so happily.
Science doesn't contradict religion................
And there a reason they call it the big bang THEORY.
The Big Bang is proclaimed by many religious people to be a divine act of God. That particular example of a scientific theory
is compatible with religion.
