Morpheus offers Neo a choice between taking the blue pill—the continuation of a comfortable fantasy, or a red pill—an awakening to a harsh reality. Neo chose the red.
What would you choose?
If in reality all the evidence pointed to evolution, just as much as reality points to a round earth, and an earth that moves (to the dismay of Psalms, Paul, the old Church, modern Geocentrist, and others), would you choose the blue pill--the continuation of a comfortable fantasy, or would you chose the red--an awakening to a harsh reality?
I can see why believers can dismiss the flat-earth and geocentric passages of the Bible, because they don't really cause much of a stir in one's theology. Perhaps it does put a damper on the inerrant Bible concept, but some of our more skilled literalist have maneuvered around these discrepancies by telling us that when the writers write of an immovable earth, they are really writing of a movable earth, and when they speak of an earth with edges, they are taking about a sphere--a blue pill bliss.
Most of us do not have an issue here with taking the red pill when reality comes face-to-face with these things we reevaluate our understanding of scripture and not deny reality. We choose the red pill since the sting is not so bad. In these examples we play as a jury willing to evaluate the evidence first and then make a verdict. But evaluating the case for evolution is much different. One is no longer the jury; they are now the mother of the victim, or the wife of a husband.
There was a wife in our community whose husband (a Pentecostal pastor) tried to hire an undercover policeman to kill her so he could collect the insurance money. They had recordings of the conversations but even with this, the wife would not leave the side of the husband who claimed he had been set up. She was new to the country; she did not have many friends; her husband was her life, and a red pill would have been too brutal for her (particularly in a Christian culture that sees you as harlot for divorcing for any other reason besides infidelity, unfortunately attempted murder does little to plead your case).
To accept a reality where all the evidence points to evolution the Creationist must return to the beginning, must reexamine her theology--dispentionalism barely makes it past a day. She can no longer accept the interpretation that have been handed down to her, she must examine and cut threw them as a surgeon, and see her husband of many years as a murderer.
It should not be difficult to understand that if there is a blue pill and red pill reality the Creationist position is in the blue, while the TE position is in the red. There is not a single TE who has something to gain or lose if evolution tomorrow is proven false, we only want reality no matter what the cost. Every so often I enter an atheist forum, and I tell everyone before the start of the discussion, that if they can show me that my belief in God is unreasonable, if it is the product of a box that I have not looked in, then I would kiss their feet. If someone tells me that I have been unreasonable, I take his opinion as godsend because then I must examine what I have been unreasonable in. Not once have they accused me of being specious, because I have always been eager to see the error of my ways.
It should be reasonable for even the YEC to see that his position is in a blue pill state--like a Neo prior to Morpheus providing him a red pill option. In the words of Kurt Wise: " no matter how much evidence proves evolution and disproves creationism, he would still be a creationist. ". What better example of a man who choses the blue pill when offered.
If you were Neo, and Morpheus provided you with the choice of a blue pill--the continuation of a comfortable fantasy, or a red pill—an awakening to a harsh reality, what would you choose?
What would you choose?
If in reality all the evidence pointed to evolution, just as much as reality points to a round earth, and an earth that moves (to the dismay of Psalms, Paul, the old Church, modern Geocentrist, and others), would you choose the blue pill--the continuation of a comfortable fantasy, or would you chose the red--an awakening to a harsh reality?
I can see why believers can dismiss the flat-earth and geocentric passages of the Bible, because they don't really cause much of a stir in one's theology. Perhaps it does put a damper on the inerrant Bible concept, but some of our more skilled literalist have maneuvered around these discrepancies by telling us that when the writers write of an immovable earth, they are really writing of a movable earth, and when they speak of an earth with edges, they are taking about a sphere--a blue pill bliss.
Most of us do not have an issue here with taking the red pill when reality comes face-to-face with these things we reevaluate our understanding of scripture and not deny reality. We choose the red pill since the sting is not so bad. In these examples we play as a jury willing to evaluate the evidence first and then make a verdict. But evaluating the case for evolution is much different. One is no longer the jury; they are now the mother of the victim, or the wife of a husband.
There was a wife in our community whose husband (a Pentecostal pastor) tried to hire an undercover policeman to kill her so he could collect the insurance money. They had recordings of the conversations but even with this, the wife would not leave the side of the husband who claimed he had been set up. She was new to the country; she did not have many friends; her husband was her life, and a red pill would have been too brutal for her (particularly in a Christian culture that sees you as harlot for divorcing for any other reason besides infidelity, unfortunately attempted murder does little to plead your case).
To accept a reality where all the evidence points to evolution the Creationist must return to the beginning, must reexamine her theology--dispentionalism barely makes it past a day. She can no longer accept the interpretation that have been handed down to her, she must examine and cut threw them as a surgeon, and see her husband of many years as a murderer.
It should not be difficult to understand that if there is a blue pill and red pill reality the Creationist position is in the blue, while the TE position is in the red. There is not a single TE who has something to gain or lose if evolution tomorrow is proven false, we only want reality no matter what the cost. Every so often I enter an atheist forum, and I tell everyone before the start of the discussion, that if they can show me that my belief in God is unreasonable, if it is the product of a box that I have not looked in, then I would kiss their feet. If someone tells me that I have been unreasonable, I take his opinion as godsend because then I must examine what I have been unreasonable in. Not once have they accused me of being specious, because I have always been eager to see the error of my ways.
It should be reasonable for even the YEC to see that his position is in a blue pill state--like a Neo prior to Morpheus providing him a red pill option. In the words of Kurt Wise: " no matter how much evidence proves evolution and disproves creationism, he would still be a creationist. ". What better example of a man who choses the blue pill when offered.
If you were Neo, and Morpheus provided you with the choice of a blue pill--the continuation of a comfortable fantasy, or a red pill—an awakening to a harsh reality, what would you choose?
. So how might you show that the Earth orbits the Sun? After all, all we have are obscure observations of stars and planets. They are so obscure that today most of the general public don't know what any of these observations actually are, while they learn that the Earth orbits the Sun by rote in school - and that would be "anti-Scriptural indoctrination", the ghost of Bellarmine would say. That the Earth orbits the Sun is just a model for physical evidence.
