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Why I am cancelling my Muse subscription and returning to Cricket.
Muse has offended me.
I can gloss over articles about ape-men, dinosaur feathers, and what-have-you. I am perfectly aware that the majority of people do not share my views and that Evolution is regarded by a lot of people as some sort of scientific "concensus." I can only expect that references to it will appear in mainstream publications.
But directly attacking my beliefs is a little bit much. Relegating Young-Earth Creationism to some kind of Dark Age status that has been "proven false" is offensive and unprofessional. There is still a large amount of debate in the public sphere about it and I personally believe people will eventually abandon Evolution as they abandoned spontaneous generation, bloodletting, etc. But even if you don't believe that, no one has to get that way about it!
I am offended that Muse has directly attacked the Bible, YEC, and indirectly people like me, who believe in them.
I am definitely switching back to Cricket and I will probably be writing Muse's Letterbox or whatever it is Muse calls it.
submitted by Emily L., age 16, WA
(May 2, 2012 - 12:09 am)
(May 2, 2012 - 12:09 am)
I personally do not get Muse but I have been thinking about it, and as your beliefs and opinions seem to be similar or alike to mine, I will certainly re-think changing to Muse.
(May 2, 2012 - 7:08 pm)
But about the Young-Earth theory, well, I am indifferent about that. I dislike the approach our Science book makes, however, insisting that other people's views are wrong and that the earth absolutely has to be a few thousand years old and if you don't believe so, you're a fool. When reading it aloud to my younger brothers, I have to skim past the opinionated parts. ;)
(May 3, 2012 - 7:55 pm)
TOPTOPTOPTOP!!!!
(May 2, 2012 - 9:14 pm)
Honestly, an attack on Young Earth Creationism is hardly an attack on the Bible; or, to put it another way, attacking a particular interpretation is not the same thing as attacking the thing that is interpreted. I think that creationists are misguided, and I'm a Christian.
Mind, I'm not criticising your descision to cancel your subscription; if I somehow found myself subscribed to a magazine that frequently ran articles on YEC and treated evolution as though it were like, say, bloodletting*, I would unsubscribe posthaste.
*Myself, I prefer to compare evolution to heliocentrism, but YMMV.
(May 3, 2012 - 2:35 pm)
You are right that it is maybe possibly possible, but remember that macroevolution is merely an unconfirmed hypothesis. I am however not trying to start a discussion or anything I am just saying that evolution is not scientific law.
(May 3, 2012 - 5:14 pm)
They did directly attack the Bible, though. And I quote: "For much of history, the Bible was the Western civilization's main source of geological information. Even famous scientists such as Sir Isaac Newton accepted the biblical idea that the earth was created just 6,000 years ago."
Technically this sentence is true but I think that Newton was right. This bit is, however, accompanied by an illustration of one of the Muses saying, "Ha! Even scientists were mistaken!"
(May 3, 2012 - 7:03 pm)
I am a Christian and I take offense to that bit.
(May 4, 2012 - 11:33 am)
"*Myself, I prefer to compare evolution to heliocentrism, but YMMV."
Love you forever, ZNZ. :)
(May 17, 2012 - 8:31 pm)
I have never gotten Muse and never have even opened one. I, however, am a firm believer of the Bible, and will speak out against anything that goes against it. Even though I have never read this article, I think that Muse or any other magazine should take sides on a debated issue, unless they are known to believe that sort of thing, and they are respectful of others beliefs. Now, I'm not saying that you can't state your opinion, I would just like people to be fair, and knowing, that people with other beliefs might be reading it. I don't think you should ever try to offend someone.
(May 4, 2012 - 4:07 pm)
Although I agree that this article is disrespectful to Christians and is saying that the Bible is wrong, I think we should all take it with a grain of salt.
I am a Christian. I love Muse. Some things in it I do not agree with. Some of them make me boiling mad. But I really dislike PURE Christian magazines. I don't really learn from them, whereas when I read something from another person's worldview, I understand them a little better. You see where they're coming from. That doesn't make what they're saying right, but it makes it a little easier to understand. Usually, when I understand why people are saying what they're saying, I'm less likely to shoot them with my words.
I agree that something needs to be done about this. So many of our generation say that "oh, that's so wrong. Somebody needs to do something about that." And then go back to watching their favorite television show or playing some random video game that won't matter when it comes to eternity. We need to do something about it. But what?
I suggest that everyone who finds this offensive write the Muse people and ask them nicely to maybe tone down their evolution favoritism (nicely is a key part in this because if we get too nasty about it, you probably won't get a good response.) We should also take into account that they can't just run around and shout "WE LOVE CHRISTIANITY!!!" at the top of their lungs without the folks on the other side of the spectrum getting on their case too. It's a delicate procedure, catering to so many people from so many viewpoints. Be gracious, yet firm. We cannot let an attack on our faith stand unnoticed.
To end my rant, I would like to modify the words of a very good friend: " Oh yeah, well, just forget about what is behind and strain toward what is ahead! You only have a few glorious years of youth so put aside your ipod, scooters, and MP3 players and HIT THE BOOKS!!!!!!"
Sorry Admins about my long post. I had somethin' to say. :)
A Believer in Jesus Christ, the Son of the Living God
(May 4, 2012 - 6:53 pm)
I am not a religious person, but I don't neccassarily think there ISN'T a such thing as a god or other spiritual being either. I have an extremely mixed approach on evolution and other such theories and God and other such beliefs. I think that evolution did happen, and the earth is billions of years old, but I think that God or another spiritual being/beings set things in motion for the earth to be created and for evolution to take place. Science is what happens, religion is who made it happen. In my opinion, anyway. :)
(May 4, 2012 - 7:02 pm)
I don't disagree with the Muse people. I honestly wouldn't care either way which side of the issue they take. Yes, I do think there is enough scientific evidence for evolution, but that does go against the Bible. So whatever they say about it doesn't really matter. Each side balances each other out, so there is no real winner, no matter what one person/thing says.
And each person should respect the beliefs of others, whether they agree or disagree.
Admin
(May 5, 2012 - 8:40 am)
I'm not technically Christian, but it was wrong of them to directly attack your religion. If they were going to write something on evolution, they could have phrased it in a different way.
(May 5, 2012 - 10:15 am)
Everyone
has very different views, and we should respect each other’s.
But
is this really a thing to get our kickers in a twist about? We’ll never know
how the earth came to be, because it is scientifically impossible to travel in
time. Seeing is believing. We CAN’T see it so we’ll never know. Science can’t
PROVE anything. I know what you’re thinking (I hope). But how many mistakes has
science made? The ideas are always changing. It only takes one experiment to
get rid of a theory we’re all believe in years!
(May 10, 2012 - 2:00 am)
Also I'm a Christain. Thought you might like to know that.
(May 10, 2012 - 5:41 pm)