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A while back I posted a rant that one could sum up by saying "If you believe in Creationism, just believe in it and don't make a mockery of your own faith and of science by lying and pretending that you think Intelligent Design is a scientific theory."
I actually sort of kind of in the most loose way possible do believe in Intelligent Design. I think that evolution is God's tool, and that he set the wonderful experiment of this universe in play, and occasionally still keeps his hand in, tweaking things when they need it. But I don't think that's science! I think that's what I believe because of a combination of personal spiritual experience, thought, study, prayer, and just plain old faith. And this has nothing whatsoever, really, to do with science, and I won't pretend it does, and I certainly don't think schools should teach it! Religion only belongs in school as part of comparative religion courses, not as part of a science curriculum!
I like science. I love reading about the amazing ways in which species evolve and adapt. It's fascinating! And I put a lot of trust into science, because I understand how it works, and the way it tends to be self-correcting, particularly when practiced by those who really embrace the real principles of the scientific method, where you don't go in wanting the evidence to fit your hypothesis, you go in just looking to see what happens. I think that's great.
And I could wish that more Christians would see that science and faith can coexist. But at least, as a recent survey reveals, most fundamentalist Christians don't believe the pseudo-scientific twisting of Creation Science, which tries to explain dinosaurs away by putting them in the Bible, when they're not actually there at all. Most Christians just plain believe the Bible. And as unscientific as a literal belief in Biblical creation is, at least it's honest! At least it's having faith in your own faith! Unlike the Answers in Genesis dinosaur claptrap, which is a pervesion of faith and science both.
Now if fewer fundamentalist Christians would lie about it in an attempt to get creationism taught in schools, I'd be even happier!
I actually sort of kind of in the most loose way possible do believe in Intelligent Design. I think that evolution is God's tool, and that he set the wonderful experiment of this universe in play, and occasionally still keeps his hand in, tweaking things when they need it. But I don't think that's science! I think that's what I believe because of a combination of personal spiritual experience, thought, study, prayer, and just plain old faith. And this has nothing whatsoever, really, to do with science, and I won't pretend it does, and I certainly don't think schools should teach it! Religion only belongs in school as part of comparative religion courses, not as part of a science curriculum!
I like science. I love reading about the amazing ways in which species evolve and adapt. It's fascinating! And I put a lot of trust into science, because I understand how it works, and the way it tends to be self-correcting, particularly when practiced by those who really embrace the real principles of the scientific method, where you don't go in wanting the evidence to fit your hypothesis, you go in just looking to see what happens. I think that's great.
And I could wish that more Christians would see that science and faith can coexist. But at least, as a recent survey reveals, most fundamentalist Christians don't believe the pseudo-scientific twisting of Creation Science, which tries to explain dinosaurs away by putting them in the Bible, when they're not actually there at all. Most Christians just plain believe the Bible. And as unscientific as a literal belief in Biblical creation is, at least it's honest! At least it's having faith in your own faith! Unlike the Answers in Genesis dinosaur claptrap, which is a pervesion of faith and science both.
Now if fewer fundamentalist Christians would lie about it in an attempt to get creationism taught in schools, I'd be even happier!
