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By Darwin

June 28, 2006 12:31 PM | Link to this

As a Christian and as a scientist, I can say that it scares me how close we came to taking evolution out of the science curriculum. If parents want their kids to learn inccorect science, they can send their kids to a Christian fundamentalist school. However, public schools have an obligation to prepare their students for college and life.

Y’all would love to hear my debates with my MIL on this. She thinks that it never rained before Noah either. Some people just don’t understand science and how it works.

Scary.

By Humanistic Jones

June 28, 2006 01:14 PM | Link to this

Prior to some serious philisophical debates with some of my spiritual leaders, I was a devoute Christian. It was only after I was told in exact words that I had to choose science or god, that I decided my religion was in question (after a few years, I’ve settled on Deism). I never felt that Christianity, or any other revealed religion for that matter, should feel any threat from science.

The problem comes in from literal interpretations. Certainly the bible describes a world creation, but should we have ever taken it literally? I seriously doubt that. If we were to take the biblical universe literally we’d certainly have alot of odd things in the world.

Take for instance the noahcian flood. If we believe that story, then there is a window in the sky somewhere that when opened lets in the water. Tower of Babel? I guess all our skyscrapers, air planes, satelites and spaceships are a sin against god, because it clearly stated that if men got too high above the earth we’d end up in God’s front lawn. Funny, Voyager is at the astrophysical edge of our sun’s territory and still no sign of that. Even in the new testament, Jesus ended up on a mountain that showed every nation in the world. Litterally? I want to see that mountain, because if you could see the Chinese Empire, as well as the pre-Columbian empires from a place near Isreal, then I smell a photo-op.

The point is that god and evolution are fine together. So what if it took us billions of years to come from self-replicating protiens? So we may not be unique in the universe. That doesn’t mean that the soul and a connection to a higher being can’t exist.

If you ever want to see the true beauty of god’s creation, don’t read a story that claims that the earth was hammered out in 7 days. Get a telescope and look at the awsome majesty of an infinite expanse that took trillions of years to get where it is.

By madisons mom

June 28, 2006 01:50 PM | Link to this

As a graduate from North Georgia College and State University with a degree in biology, I applaud Ms. New’s gumption in standing up for what is right. While in college, I took an evolution class that clearly states in one of the first chapters, “there is no reason religion and evolution can NOT coexist.”

I also found it quite humorous that the author, Michael Winerip, calls Governor Perdue, “former Governor Sonny Perdue.” Although I like Gov Perdue.

By The Thin Guy

June 28, 2006 04:22 PM | Link to this

My problem is I don’t believe in creation or evolution. I’ve never seen a miracle or anything created or any evidence of God. But nothing is more absurd than the Big Bang and biological evolution. You take a sack of frogs to a desert island and come back in a million years and you have either more frogs or no frogs; you don’t have lions, elephants, and Paris Hilton. I don’t have any idea how we got here and neither do the preachers or scientists. But I admire those of you who believe in something.