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In reply to the discussion: Finally, There Are More Young Americans Who 'Believe' in Evolution Than Creationism [View all]Major Nikon
(36,917 posts)While true, frequently used by religionists in a failed attempt to equate scientific knowledge with religious belief. Inevitably followed by some sort of word salad.
The only box you have yet to check is the claim that creationism is also a "theory", which may be correct only in the purest literal sense. That doesn't mean it isn't pure unadulterated bullshit when it's used to construct a false equivalency with the Theory of Evolution. While you may or may not intend to go that far, it's still very much down the same road you are traveling.
Despite your attempts all you are really doing is just repeating the same arguments that have been well debunked in forums that extend well beyond this one. When you start describing scientific "belief" in the same context as religious belief and pretending they are the same thing, you really aren't coming up with anything remotely resembling an original argument. I've been listening to the same thing for at least the last 30 years by all sorts of people and it just never gets any better.
Your example of pointing out pseudoscience masquerading as science in order to discredit science doesn't hold much water either. At best it's a distraction from whatever point you were trying to originally make. The scientific community does not have a problem with skepticism, at least no where near the same level religious belief does. So all you are really doing is constructing another false equivalency.