Critical Thinking Blog #2

This is always a tricky discussion, but Jacoby presents some sharp arguments about the debate between evolution and creationism. For this blog, create your own discussion about this debate. Where do you stand and why? What critical criteria have you used to consider this issue (if at all -- maybe it's the first time you've thought about it)? Where does this issue stand among the issues of the day?
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The constant battle between evolution and creationism has been raging for more than a century. Unfortunately though there has been numerous pseudonyms under which they have battled with; social Darwinism, eugenics, fundamentalism, pseudoscience, philosophy of evolution. I stand with the natural scientist school of thought, evolution. I stand with the natural science, evolution, line of thought because their arguments are based off of logic and intellectualism. The pseudoscience of social Darwinism is flawed and is based off of passion and emotion instead of logic, since any form of thought that is based off of emotion is constantly changing based off of the emotion it is a fallacy. William Sumner taught his students at Yale university individual social Darwinism that believed in absolutes, which any person that believes in an absolute is ignorant to the truth. Any theory based off of absolutes is flawed in their line of thinking and is unable to think logically, because as the saying goes “nothing is absolute in life” and whether its evolution or creationism any of there theories that is based off of absolutes is flawed. It is my personal belief that any pseudoscience is flawed, and science based on absolutes is flawed, any religion that believes in absolutes is flawed. I actually debate this argument all the time at work with my colleagues and some of my classmates in my social philosophy class. The issue of evolution and creationism stands among the most unpublicized arguments of the day. Every week there is some argument that involves the battle between evolution and creationism that is just ignored by the main stream press due to the fact that it is a hot topic that could suffer in loses of viewers if they were to air it. I think that by holding back on the severity of the issue in today’s time all that the press is doing is fueling the fire without realizing it. In court, school, church, clubs and YMCAs the effects are noticeable enough that society is being fractured, even if it is slowly. So in conclusion without realizing the impact of self-ignorance and lucidity that Americans are creating to themselves they essentially showing their stupidity and overall failure to grasp the situation between creationism and evolution that is going on in the United States.