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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)
What the muses said about how the scientists were wrong for believing in the whole creation story was mean. However Muse isn't a religious science magazine, it's an unreligious science magazine. It includes articles about evolution and the big bang (from what I've heard) so it probably won't regard the Bible or any other religious scripture- the Quran or the Torah for example- as true and that should be taken into account before a subscription is made.
Don't dwell on it too much. They're just another person/people's views. The way they expressed them was mean but they probably didn't mean it to be. :)
(May 12, 2012 - 11:49 am)