Do You Believe Australian Aboriginals Came Out of the Earth


A University Dean wants scientists to stop saying aboriginal people arrived in Australia around 40,000 years ago. That aboriginal Australians migrated into the continent is contrary to aboriginal mythology which says they have been present in that location since the beginning of time. It seems like the dispute between some Christians who think God created human beings and science which has established evolution brought about human beings.

I understand some Christian colleges teach only that humans were created by God. Others teach creationism and evolution as equally valid explanations. Even President George W. Bush said it was good to have "all ideas" taught meaning creationism and evolution.

It is peculiar that both in Australia and in the U.S. we have well educated people advocating young people learn less science and more myth. How could such a thing come to be?

We also have high public officials, such as Presidents, implying they believe one fertilized egg is a human being and that to harm it is murder. Then, there is the notion intimate relationships between people of the same sex should be a crime.

Nothing but bad can come from putting religious myths into laws and into the curriculum of public schools. There are periods and places in our country's history we can look back on to see what society was like when religious mythology took the place of rational thinking.

One was the period of slavery and segregation. The other was that of witchcraft.

When religious myths are allowed to run wild the results are terrible.


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  1. Ardy BJuly 1, 2019 at 6:23 PM

    Jon wrote: "When religious myths are allowed to run wild the results are terrible." A world free of the concepts chosen people, heresy, holy war, blasphemy, glorified suffering, genital mutilation, blood sacrifice, hell, karma, eternal life, male ownership of female fertility, and book worship would be nice. These concepts are so embedded in the human psyche a world entirely free of them is itself mythological. Even so we must continue to chip away at the most vulnerable of the lot. Certainly reducing the practice of genital mutilation and resolutely resisting male ownership of female fertility are worthy targets. Credit: https://www.salon.com/2015/01/24/the_12_worst_ideas_religion_has_unleashed_on_the_world_partner/

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    1. Jon LindgrenJuly 1, 2019 at 7:37 PM

      Ardy B "...so embedded in the human Psych a world entirely free of the is itself mythological." You are so right. Those things appear right here in the comments.

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  2. tsmJuly 5, 2019 at 2:55 PM

    I have a reading assignment for my old atheist friend. John D. Steinrucken in the 25 March 2010 edition of the American Thinker. BTW John is an atheist.

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