Occasionally I like to have a look at what sort of things the evangelicals are talking about. I feel a little sorry for the traditional British evangelicals. They are discovering that a large proportion of their younger colleagues have come over all fundamentalist. Heavily influenced by the nonsense emanating from the States, they are antipathetic to evolution and seriously regard accounts of creation in Genesis to be taken literally. Furthermore, the world of the internet from which evangelicals have benefited means that the discussions (I use the term loosely) initiated by fundamentalists take over. British evangelicals of a more intelligent sort find themselves mired in a terrible world of unreality from which they cannot escape.
Short-term no doubt the fundamentalists will make gains in the UK. Creationism and its more cunning younger brother intelligent design are counter-cultural to avowed materialists like Dawkins, (as well as being the sort of thing that appeals to iconoclasts). But long-term it gets them into a long war of attrition with science that they can never win but from which they'll find it hard to extricate themselves.
Short-term no doubt the fundamentalists will make gains in the UK. Creationism and its more cunning younger brother intelligent design are counter-cultural to avowed materialists like Dawkins, (as well as being the sort of thing that appeals to iconoclasts). But long-term it gets them into a long war of attrition with science that they can never win but from which they'll find it hard to extricate themselves.
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