Encore un ancien créationniste
Publié : 16 nov. 2003, 21:14
Le site de Talk.Origins vient de republier un témoignage d'un ancien créationniste de la Terre jeune supplémentaire.
L'ensemble est assez long et ne contient rien de fondamentalement nouveau sur le caractère lobotomisé de ce mouvement. Malgré tout, j'ai trouvé les passages suivants assez parlants (désolé pour l'anglais ; il me semble que tout le monde ici le comprend. Sinon, je traduirai) :
"I became fully versed in YEC teachings, and found myself laughing and cursing at the Discovery channel. What idiots! Billions of years, monkeys to man, what a joke. Satan was in full control of our country and most of our churches. (...) And there were several more people that more than proved YEC to be true, they echoed the very things I had read. I began to feel a superior arrogance towards the people that went against them. (...)
The past few weeks I started to read the posts in T.O. again. It has been several years but I remember a few names, and I see the arrogance in the YEC posts. It makes me sick to think that I felt like that, even if it was only for about a year or so. But it also makes me wonder if these people are going through the same thing that I did, and are hiding their true thoughts and feelings in a last ditch effort to hang on to their religion."
Apparemment, un sentiment de supériorité général à l'égard du reste du monde n'est pas si rare chez les créationnistes. Mais bon, tout ça confirme ce que disait mon cher Darwin et que j'ai déjà cité ici : l'ignorance donne plus souvent confiance en soi que la connaissance.
L'ensemble est assez long et ne contient rien de fondamentalement nouveau sur le caractère lobotomisé de ce mouvement. Malgré tout, j'ai trouvé les passages suivants assez parlants (désolé pour l'anglais ; il me semble que tout le monde ici le comprend. Sinon, je traduirai) :
"I became fully versed in YEC teachings, and found myself laughing and cursing at the Discovery channel. What idiots! Billions of years, monkeys to man, what a joke. Satan was in full control of our country and most of our churches. (...) And there were several more people that more than proved YEC to be true, they echoed the very things I had read. I began to feel a superior arrogance towards the people that went against them. (...)
The past few weeks I started to read the posts in T.O. again. It has been several years but I remember a few names, and I see the arrogance in the YEC posts. It makes me sick to think that I felt like that, even if it was only for about a year or so. But it also makes me wonder if these people are going through the same thing that I did, and are hiding their true thoughts and feelings in a last ditch effort to hang on to their religion."
Apparemment, un sentiment de supériorité général à l'égard du reste du monde n'est pas si rare chez les créationnistes. Mais bon, tout ça confirme ce que disait mon cher Darwin et que j'ai déjà cité ici : l'ignorance donne plus souvent confiance en soi que la connaissance.