seeing as how I am a republican but if democrats want to ever win an election get this guy off the air (or at least give him a brain.
I'm not even sorry to say it: THESE PEOPLE ARE IDIOTS.
I know this will piss some of ya'll off- but if you believe that the "creation myth" that is found in the christian bible is the literal, historical truth- you are delusional.
Evolution is a fact- it's how we came to be. Yeah- I, and the chimpanzees that swing in the boughs of an african tree, share a common ancestor- do I have a problem with that? No- because you know who else shares this ancestry?
Bach- Mozart- Einstein- Plato- Martin Luther King- Nelson Mandella- John Paul 2- Gandhi- Abraham Lincoln- and the nice gal who runs the italian bistro down the street.
In saying that evolution is fact, am I dissing God, Christianity, or any other religion, that says otherwise? No- no- and triple no.
First off, I would like to believe that God, being the "ultimate reality", the be-all, and end-all, would be the most creative, innovative, and curious being in the 'hood. I think that if such a being were to create life, he/she/it/"Bob" would take a more creative and expressive way to show their intent than to create trees, before they created the sun (as "Intelligent design" would have us believe.)
And let's pose two scenarios, for the "Greatness of God":
The "Intelligent design" argument for the existence of God, as it relates to our existence: "One day, after sitting around, doing who-knows what for several eternities, God whisked the world and the universe together in six days. Boom-boom-boom- since then, he's been busy punishing gays with AIDS, and backing republicans for congress."
The evolutionary argument for the existence of God, as it relates to our existence: "God might be seen as the act of creation, itself, as God, being timeless, is the only concieveable entity that could guide a process to arduous and eternal as the creation of life itself. The very nature of intelligence implies error, and thus, improvements are made."
As to being out of touch with Christianity- Evolution was first PROPOSED by a christian, as a theory- over a millennia before Darwin came along, Saint Augustine wrote that "in the beginning", God created all things in their germinal causes, including the physiology of man, and that the germinal cause (of God's creation) inseminated the matter, which then- GASP- EVOLVED- into come complex shapes, eventually cluminating in MAN.
Far be it from me to argue with Saint Augustine, or the Late Pontiff, John Paul the second, who acknowledged evolution as "more than just a theory"
Now- if you believe that, indeed, as christianity, and a ton of other religions believe, that God sneezed the universe into existence, well- that's all fine and dandy- the constitution of this great country gives every american the right to be wrong, delusional, or just pedantic. Believe what you will- that's all fine and good.
But DO NOT bring your FAITH in these beliefs into publicly-funded classrooms, and museums. Don't foist a few sentences that you read in a book that has been translated and re-translated for over 2000 years, as "science" into our communities. Go to church and do it- KEEP IT OUT OF OUR CLASSROOMS.
The basic tenets of "Creation Science/Intelligent Design?":
"You weren't there, ten million years ago, so you accept scientific evidence out of FAITH- so evolutionary theory is a matter of faith, not science."
Bullplop.
Yeah- we don't know what happened, ten million years ago, definitively. We have holes in the theory, but they are being filled, with every year of research that happens. We can't explain, everythng, right now, but the drive for knowledge continues, worldwide, and we are learning such AMAZING things, in the pursuit for knowledge of our origins.
Evolution doesn't deal with certainties- it deals with variables, and a force of creation that we are only beginning to understand- and that's the beauty of it.
"Intelligent design", on the other hand, is a ham-handed pseudoscience that, much like the Bush Bowl intelligence apparatus, comes to the table with a conclusion, and seeks to "fix" evidence around this preconcieved "fact". They KNOW everything, already, and don't bother exploring other venues- the Book of Genesis has it all.
I know their arguments, well. Dr. Kent Hovind, a preeminent lecturer on "intelligent design", used to have his entire lecture series online, but removed it, recently. Too bad- I saw all 9 hours of it, and it was a hoot. Yeah- Evolution is a farce, but in Hovind's lectures, he uses the Loch Ness Monster, Bigfoot, Dragons, and the Yeti as evidence for Biblical "Intelligent Design." Write to him, and ask him to put the lecture series back up. It was priceless- truly priceless.
The most preeminent "Creation Science" propagandist is Kennith Ham, who- well- is just insane. His daily "answers in genesis" radio rambles make my brain hurt- they really do.
I remember, back in high school, back in the 80's, a substitute teacher at our high school got canned, because she showed how closely the north and south american continents fit so closely with the eurasian and african continents, and suggested, that maybe, they had might, at one point, been joined.
Now, this kinda idiocy is going nationwide...
Oook, ook!
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Now I am not the biggest political expert but you dont insult members of the leading relegion in the country and expect to win the election if you believe this great but keep it to yourself not all Christains are republicans after all. Now I encourage all democrats out there to email this guy and tell him to shut the heck up.
