bound to obey and serve ([info]elfundeb) wrote,
@ 2005-11-18 20:06:00
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Intelligent Design
From today's Washington Post:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/17/AR2005111701304.html

Evolution for believers, eloquently and succinctly written.

I wish I'd read it before the conversation I had last week with my Christian fundamentalist uncle.

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[info]psychic_serpent
2005-11-18 07:34 pm UTC (link)
As a member of a church on the Penn campus I can tell you that we not only have many, many students who attend who see no conflict in being religious and believing in evolution but many professors as well, including well-respected professors of biology. I have never known any of our pastors to be anti-evolution; the 6 or so pastors we've had in the 21 years I've been a member would all have laughed at the idea of taking Genesis's creation story literally and disregarding science.

In fact, before the current pope was elected the Vatican had made a statement many years ago about why the theory of evolution was not incompatible with the Roman Catholic faith and kids who went to parochial schools were often far more likely to be taught about evolution than kids at public schools in the same area if the local school board had been taken over by fundamentalists. (Then again, before the current pope was elected the Vatican also came out with a statement about Harry Potter not being incompatible with Catholicism either.)

The way my husband put it, if you believe that any gaps in the archeological record can ONLY be explained by the intervention of God, if more digs are done and those gaps are filled then your God gets smaller and smaller until your God disappears altogether. ;) If, on the other hand, you see a difference between knowledge and faith then there is no such conflict and God's existence isn't dependent upon humankind's continued ignorance. :D

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