Darwinism as religion?

I wanted to upload this video for Darwin's B-Day, but I've been having major YT issues.

I've heard time and again that support of evolution equals a religion. It isn't, but that's not the point of this video.

This video is to point out that if Darwinism were a religion, it would be a damn sight better one than the other ones on the market.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• atheist
• creationism
• darwinism
• evolution
• imrational

[Laughingblades]

Market Darwinism (aka "free" market) is like a religion :3

[imrational]

@Laughingblades

Yes and no. I think there is some truth to it. Unfortunately, people seem to ignore the market's influence on government, affecting the "free-ness of it".

[MNBrant]

Not all EMT's are Atheist.

[imrational]

@MNBrant

No, but their defibrillators are :P

[Laughingblades]

@imrational :3 people's naive utopian beliefs about how and why Market Darwinism is a good thing and what a free market does is like a religion. Kind of like the naive utopianism of communists who put too much faith in the intellect, reciprocity, kindness and cooperativeness of people.

[metacosmos]

Have a look please at my video:"Dawkins a fanatical darwinist".

[boosie007666]

Darwin was catholic. When he took his famous voyage aboard the Beagle he began to see evidence against the idea of a creator. One of the small things that made him atheist was the observation of parasitic wasps lying eggs in the body of a living spider. He realised that a benevolent and loving creator wouldn't create such a monstrous form of larval growth, let alone make multiple variations of reproduction and birth.

[12ozshark]

It's like Darwinism has become a fundamentalist religion - can't question it, challenge it - it's fact

[gerontodon]

Evolution isn't dawinism-- that's the theory that biological form and function are created incrementally due to random mutation and natural selection. I think that idea has had it's day, personally.

I think some people *do* have an ideological commitment to darwinism, but they're not all atheists. Most are materialists, but some are theistic evolutionists.

[TTTtirsa]

This is craptaztic!!

[miles101457]

SCIENCE RULES FOR EVER!