The evidence for some form of evolution -- and the age of earth and life upon it -- is mounting almost daily. How long can the WTS insulate its followers from the incontrovertible evidence without lapsing into total irrelevance? What do you think?
How Long Can WT Stonewall The Mounting Evidence For Evolution/Age of Man?
by Room 215 30 Replies latest watchtower bible
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james_woods
Fundamentalist churches have done this as far back as the Scopes trial.
I don't see any end of it in sight.
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zoiks
For as long as they want to. Nearly half of all Americans - or is it fully half? - still believe that humanity is less than 10,000 years old.
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Doubting Bro
If they can stonewall the indisputable evidence that Jerusalem wasn't destroyed in 607 but 20 years later, then they certainly could resist evolution!
Sciences only matter to them if they're trying to use it to confirm something they're trying to teach.
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ProdigalSon
It doesn't matter how much evidence there is. Everything from the Encyclopedia Britannica to the Museum of Natural History to the History Channel is run by Satan the Devil, Adam ate a fruit 6,000 years ago, and we've all been screwed as a result. Satan even messes with carbon dating machines!
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ssn587
remember people, you can't fix stupid, or at least when it is a paramount disease of the brain of the dubs.
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sir82
As long as hundreds of millions of people obliviously believe that humanity is merely 6000 years old, the WT view doesn't appear to be all that embarrassing.
Facts are irrelevant for a startling number of people.
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ziddina
As long as the other fundamentalist religions - fundie Christians, Mormons, fundie Jews, fundie Muslims, fundie Hindus/Buddhists - can...
As for,
"How long can the WTS insulate its followers from the incontrovertible evidence without lapsing into total irrelevance? ..."
They're already there, man... They just don't know it, being out-of-touch with reality and all...
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designs
About as long as Fundamentalists.
You don't need no stink'n logic when you have Faith!
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PSacramento
The WT, like many other groups, openly state that anything THEY view that is in contridiction to THEIR INTERPRETATION of the bible/holy book(s) is incorrect.
That is why they can ignore all the evidence for evolution and against 607BC.
They just say that it isn't what the bible teaches and as such will be proven wrong when the time comes.
It is also why those groubs cling to the opinion ofthe bible/holy book(s) being literal and innerrant.