Why do people deny evolution?

I'm still waiting for you to give a single example to back up your claim that theologians use the scientific method, but all you do is run.

You mean Jane Austen, Proust and Tristram Shandy don't belong in a discussion about evolution?

For sure. Which data? Who chooses what to collect? Is there any data not being collected.

The confessional collected data.

The individual afflicted with the emotional plague is not content to take a passive attitude--he is distinguished from the neurotic character by a more or less life-destructive social activity. His thinking is completely muddled by irrational concepts and governed almost exclusively by irrational emotions. In the neurotic character, thinking and acting do not coincide. This is not true of the plague-afflicted character. As in the genital character, his thinking is in complete agreement with his actions, but there is a significant difference, i.e., his conclusions are not the result of his thinking. They are always predetermined by his emotional affliction. In the person afflicted with the emotional plague, thinking does not, as in the rational individual, serve to help him arrive at a correct conclusion; on the contrary, it serves to confirm and rationalize a predetermined irrational conclusion. This is generally known as "prejudice," but one fails to see that this prejudice has detrimental social effects on a large scale

Theology is the systematic and rational study of concepts of God and of the nature of religious truths, or the learned profession acquired by completing specialized training in religious studies, usually at a university, seminary or school of divinity.
"theology". Wordnetweb.princeton.edu. Retrieved 2012-11-11.

Theologians use various forms of analysis and argument (philosophical, ethnographic, historical, spiritual and others) to help understand, explain, test, critique, defend or promote any of myriad religious topics. Theology might be undertaken to help the theologian:

understand more truly their own religious tradition,
understand more truly another religious tradition,
make comparisons among religious traditions,
defend or justify a religious tradition,
facilitate reform of a particular tradition,
assist in the propagation of a religious tradition,[or
draw on the resources of a tradition to address some present situation or need,
draw on the resources of a tradition to explore possible ways of interpreting the world,

See, e.g., Daniel L. Migliore, Faith Seeking Understanding: An Introduction to Christian Theology 2nd ed.(Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2004)
Michael S. Kogan, 'Toward a Jewish Theology of Christianity' in The Journal of Ecumenical Studies 32.1 (Winter 1995), 89–106; available online at [1]
David Burrell, Freedom and Creation in Three Traditions (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1994)
See, e.g., John Shelby Spong, Why Christianity Must Change or Die (New York: Harper Collins, 2001)
See, e.g., Duncan Dormor et al (eds), Anglicanism, the Answer to Modernity (London: Continuum, 2003)
Timothy Gorringe, Crime, Changing Society and the Churches Series (London:SPCK, 2004)
Anne Hunt Overzee's gloss upon the view of Ricœur (1913–2005) as to the role and work of 'theologian': "Paul Ricœur speaks of the theologian as a hermeneut, whose task is to interpret the multivalent, rich metaphors arising from the symbolic bases of tradition so that the symbols may 'speak' once again to our existential situation." Anne Hunt Overzee The body divine: the symbol of the body in the works of Teilhard de Chardin and Rāmānuja, Cambridge studies in religious traditions 2 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992), ISBN 0-521-38516-4, ISBN 978-0-521-38516-9, p.4; Source: [2] (accessed: Monday 5 April 2010)

Theology is concerned with what processes are taking place at the reproductive interface.

The anthropology of religion involves the study of religious institutions in relation to other social institutions, and the comparison of religious beliefs and practices across cultures. Modern anthropology assumes that there is complete continuity between magical thinking and religion, and that every religion is a cultural product created by the human community that practices it
Pandian, Jacob (1997) The sacred integration of the cultural self: An anthropological approach to the study of religion, p.507 in S. Glazier (Ed.) The anthropology of religion
Harvey, Van A. (1996) Projection: a metaphor in search of a theory? p.67 in D.Z. Philips (ed.) Can religion be explained away?

Barbara Cartland? You read those lady novels, penned by her each in a week or two time?

draw on the resources of a tradition to explore possible ways of interpreting the world,

Every religion is valuable for what is meant to a particular person who was born in to it.

The anthropology of religion involves the study of religious institutions in relation to other social institutions,

spendi is an autistic ADD. ASSBURGERS with ADD

I don't think, Q, that our brave and severe truth seekers are quite ready for Reich.

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I'm still waiting for you to give a single example to back up your claim that theologians use the scientific method, but all you do is run.

...However much you goad me I will not go into any details on this, or any other, site.

I am well aware that you cannot possibly allow that theology is a science because all your foundations crumble away if you did....

I don't think, Q, that our brave and severe truth seekers are quite ready for Reich.

I have planted that particular seed a few times myself. To no avail of course. The soil around here is unsuitable.

Dylan planted it too in one of his songs.

It is only an affectation that truth is to be hunted to the end. It sounds good you see.