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→Junk the article, start over: worldviews, aboriginal views, and interpretations of the evidence
:[[User:Philip J. Rayment|Philip J. Rayment]] 21:52, 29 October 2007 (EDT)
:[[User:Philip J. Rayment|Philip J. Rayment]] 21:52, 29 October 2007 (EDT)
:: Assuming only for the sake of argument that your statement is true, how would that be different from what is going on here? Isn't the assumption of creation just as equally an imposition of world view on aboriginal Australians?
:: Assuming only for the sake of argument that your statement is true, how would that be different from what is going on here? Isn't the assumption of creation just as equally an imposition of world view on aboriginal Australians?
::: Thanks for choosing to address my response instead of ignoring it and pushing your own POV as many do.
::: What I said was that evolutionists are imposing their worldview on ''the evidence''. That is not the same thing as imposing a creationist view on ''the Aboriginal view''. Furthermore, if anyone is imposing a view over the Aboriginal view, its the evolutionists. Aboriginal views (and there is more than one) are all ''creationist'', in that they all believe that kangaroos were ''created''; they don't believe that kangaroos ''evolved''.
::: The parallel that you should be asking about is whether creationists are also imposing their worldview on ''the evidence''. In a sense they are, but there are two differences between what creationists do and what evolutionists do:
:::* Creationists do not claim that every phenomenon is a direct creation by God, even though they believe that He is the ''ultimate'' source. Therefore, they are free to choose between a supernatural explanation (e.g. God directly created grey kangaroos) and a "naturalistic" one (e.g. that grey kangaroos are the result of speciation from the original created "kangaroo kind"). Committed evolutionists, especially atheistic ones, rule out one of these choices before even considering it.
:::* Creationists point out that, ultimately, we all must interpret the evidence within our worldview, so in that sense evolutionists and creationists are both doing the same thing. However, Creationists acknowledge this point, whereas evolutionists deny it, by claiming that their views are "science" and "fact".
::: I hope that clarifies things somewhat.
::: [[User:Philip J. Rayment|Philip J. Rayment]] 19:04, 3 November 2007 (EDT)