Embracing Tradition, A Bit Much

EVOLUTION BY NATURAL SELECTION, like it or not, is a fact of nature, not, as the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia asserted, "a guess, and a very poor one at that". Evolution is all around us, if we just pay attention; in hybrid corn, dog breeding, and under every microscope. There's even worse news. Human made climate change is real, and happening right in front of our eyes, if only we pay attention, as thousands of scientists always do, and are now. The good news is that God is far more subtle, more sophisticated, and much more reasonable than portrayed in any of the world's major religions, which, after all, are all hundreds of years old, quite primitive, barbaric, ignorant, quite behind the times. The book of Genesis provides two distinctly descriptions of the creation of the world, in the first chapter and, in the second chapter, both of which bear no remote resemblance to observable reality, both of which cannot possibly be correct, even if one of them is. If we must have religion let us evolve into the religion of Jefferson, Spinoza, or Einstein, a religion wherein God and nature are one, in which science explains the universe systematically, sanely. This is the fundamental with conservatism in America. The more conservative, the more traditional one's outlook, the more traditional the beliefs. Traditional beliefs, much to our regret, often do not hold up in the face of new knowledge. People who deny man made climate change are clinging to their traditional beliefs beliefs such as unlimited economic growth, on an emotional level. Those who refuse to accept evolution are far too emotionally attached to their traditional religious beliefs for their own good. Isn't the pursuit and acceptance of truth, ultimately, in the best interest of all intelligent beings? Is there any real benefit at all in 2016 for pretending that human beings did of evolve over billions of years along with all the other plants animals on this incredible planet? Or that we can somehow inject billions of tons of heat absorbing gases into our planet's atmosphere without changing it at all? Or, for that matter, that God atones for our sins by torturing a man to death, or that an economy works best when everything is left to chance, without any regulation or planning. Tradition ideas, over time, become outdated, and become ridiculous ideas. That is the inherent weakness in the conservative ideology.