The Atheist - Agnostic - Non religious thread

In our country there's almost no creationists, we don't teach or believe in intelligent design

Because it's an 85%  Catholic country and Catholics admit evolution.

I studied in a Catholic school and studied evolution.

But the 9% or 10% of protestant evangelicals in Perú, believe in creationism and consider us Catholics as some sort of heretics.

The 45% creationists in USA are most likely evangelicals.

Dean wrote: That is a completely absurd statement that a Neanderthal would find incredulous.

We all know it's Neanderthal Dean, only Ralph seems to think it's Neanderthol (Read his comments in the photo).

He does not mean the academic discipline of Science gave us life. That is a completely absurd statement that a Neanderthal would find incredulous. [btw: I dislike the neanderthalist attitude here, as far as we know our Neanderthal cousins had brain as large as ours, if not larger, there is evidence that suggests they had the capacity for speech, art and music, and burial artefacts are strongly indicative of a belief in a afterlife which would suggest a religion. Don't underestimate the smarts of a Neanderthal]. He is using the word as a short-hand for the things that science studies. This is a common colloquial use of the word that even theists use in their rhetoric, we say "science" when we mean the guys in white lab coats that shout Eureka!, we say "science" when we mean physics or chemistry or biology or astronomy or mathematics, we say "science" when we mean photosynthesis or weak molecular bonding or evolution, we say "science" when we mean gravity or the gloop in shampoo that makes your hair shine or mumbo-jumbo of probiotic yoghurt. It is not good grammar but it is not bad grammar either, only a very obstinate person would ever take it literally.