Fear of God and Darwin

[tannybogus]

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C.S. Lewis, the Oxford professor and author of "The Chronicles of Narnia," once said that it isn't what the devil puts into our minds that we should be afraid of; it's what he keeps out. We should all, religious and nonreligious people alike, be familiar with the concepts of creationism and intelligent design. Public school, however, is not the place to disseminate such "scientific information."
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The Christians for whom I am attempting to speak do indeed believe that God created the heavens and the earth, including the process of evolution, by which we have arrived at this unique place in the history of the world. We also believe that God has spoken to us through the inspired words of Scripture. And we even believe that God continues to hear our prayers, however imperfect our understanding of that phenomenon may be. But what we do not believe is that God created the universe in a literal six day period a relative few thousand years ago. We also do not believe that mentioning God's name in public a few more times each day will cure the ills of our country. And we do not fear the theory of evolution being taught to our children in the public schools.
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http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/guestvoices/2008/09/fear_of_god_and_darwin.html

I'm sending this to all the Republican sites I can find. Maybe even a few fundies.:evilgrin:

[and-justice-for-all]

1. Darwin is right, religion is dead wrong...

besides, we have the fossils so we win.

[Beregond2]

2. There is nothing in Darwin that

contradicts religion, unless you are literal-minded idiot, a phenomenon that is as common among atheists as it is among fundamentalists.

[and-justice-for-all]

4. WRONG...

Evolution does in fact contradict religion, I am a literal Darwinian who goes with the facts and the empirical evidence that religious claim do not have.

When one decides that the evidence is conclusive, that does not make them a fundamentalist. When some one wants their fantasy to be true, without any empirical evidence, that would in fact make them a fundamentalist.

Just because I accept the hard facts based on hard/solid evidence, does not make me a Atheist/Scientific fundamentalist.

[dorkulon]

3. "scientific fundamentalists"--I am so sick of that crap.

Religious people love equating science as another religion. But it's just not an apt analogy. Science requires no faith, its conclusions are always open to revision, and--this is the biggie--it actually works as a method of understanding our world and ourselves. Nobody ever prayed an airplane or a microwave oven into existence--only science could create such seemingly magical things. In other words, if science really were a religion, it would clearly be the one true religion, because its practitioners can actually perform virtual miracles by applying its tenets. What other religion can credibly claim such a thing?

[and-justice-for-all]

5. THANK YOU!!!

[pleah]

6. K&R

:) I enjoyed reading that very much. Thanks.