Is Darwin the second coming of Christ??

[happydreams]

It finaly dawned on me. It must have been divine intervention. Darwin is the second coming of Christ.
First it was Galileo and Copernicus who used their brains to show that the Earth wasn't the center of the UNiverse and they were brandished heretics.

Then Darwin comes along and offers a scientific alternative to divine creation. Could he be the meteor that forced the human specie to quit proselytizing and start using their...uh, "God given brains"? Is he the Messiah that will unite all the religions under their proper classification as mythology?

When you think about it, why would God give us brains if we weren't meant to use them?

Maybe we should start teaching Evolution Theory in our churches. After all Bush did say that we don't want bias when it comes to the Evolution vs. Creation controversy. I agree with Bush here half the church meeting,sermon, mass whatever should be dedicated to Evolution. But, hey, we can negotiate the terms.

[Totally Committed]

1. Darwin got the "the human specie"

(to)"quit proselytizing and start using their...uh, 'God given brains'"?

He did? They have? Where do you live?

Evolution is no longer taught in all schools. "Creationism" and "Intelligent Design" has replaced Darwin's theory of evolution in many of those places now. And, I see no evidence of anyone in those places using thier brains, God-given or otherwise.

[intheflow]

2. You need to visit a UU church.

The Unitarian Universalsits do preach it from the pulpit.

http://www.uunashua.org/sermons/burns.shtml

[Totally Committed]

3. I am a UU...

I just don't think the people of say, Kansas, see Darwin as the Second COming of anything, but trouble.

[happydreams]

4. Really?

I'll have to look into that.

[intheflow]

6. I'm a UU minister.

Happy to preach about the evils of literal creationism at any given opportunity. If I had a church right now, I'd invite you to visit me, but I'm in job search right now. You can visit when I find a church, though! :hi:

At least 99% of UU ministers don't subscribe to literal creationism. I'm not saying 100% because we're a non-creedal church without doctrine. You never know, you might find a literal creationist in some UU church, but s/he would be a rare bird within the denomination and would NEVER insist that church members have to believe the same way.

[okasha]

5. "Human specie"

has never had brains. Specie=cash. Species(singular)=a breeding population genetically isolated from other breeding populations. Species=(plural)Two or more of the foregoing.

[ladjf]

7. Darwin stated the obvious, which is that species are continuously

evolving just as everything else is also evolving. No perceptible event could have happened in any other way than through evolution. And existence is only the array of events, nothing else.