Finally, There Are More Young Americans Who 'Believe' in Evolution Than Creationism

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1. Lately,

I have an issue with belief in all its forms, even though I am glad that their is that shift.

You can believe anything and not even know the how or why of it. Sounds true to me!

It would also be good if young people learned to carefully discern the difference between belief, knowledge and information. I could go into that more, but let it suffice.

I am not as moved by more people believing x if they don't KNOW why x is believable in the first place and it misses the fundamental point. When they know as much as they can that shifts the equation closer to knowing than believing and that knowledge is then useful for processing information about the subject.

I think beliefs are fine, but they could be put into their proper context. Imagination is wonderful, but it has its own realm in the noosphere. If we want to be scientific about things, then my point stands. If x amount of people agree with the findings of evolution and don't really know any details about why they do, it is still a belief and belies the fact that science is a process and even subject to change rather than a firm collection of dogmatic facts, and facts are very few in that sense.

My understanding of the word, "belief" is that its etymology may go back to old Germanic and the word "lief" which means to make things up and there for to "be lief" is to be making up things, which we humans can celebrate because our creativity brings all kinds of possibilities into existence from fables to facts.