081199 opinions 1 CJOnline C reationists seem to think of evolutionists as Godless creatures. Evolutionists seem to think of creationists as religious nuts. That's not much of a basis for communication, as evidenced by the Kansas State Board of Education's long, tiresome debate on how to teach what we know and suspect about the origin of life. Meanwhile, the vast majority of us are somewhere in the middle. By The Capital-Journal editorial board C reationists seem to think of evolutionists as Godless creatures.
Evolutionists seem to think of creationists as religious nuts.
That's not much of a basis for communication, as evidenced by the Kansas State Board of Education's long, tiresome debate on how to teach what we know and suspect about the origin of life. Meanwhile, the vast majority of us are somewhere in the middle. It's a lack of trust. When creationists think the evolutionists are out to banish God from the public schools and to put Darwin on a pedestal, they want to knock Darwin down and get God back in, through any door possible. When evolutionsists see religious people as wanting to teach religion rather than science, the alarms go off there, too.