[meteorite-list] Kansas Legal Debate: Creation, Evolution and Intelligent Design

[tett]

Jamie,

The I.D. God, the "God who created man in his image" kind of God, would 
never have considered building man through the prototyping process.  Humm, 
lets try some monocellular mud first.  No..., lets try some  multicellular 
organisms.  Humm, getting better, and on and on to the apes then 
Neanderthals, yes.. and then....man, now we are getting somewhere.  These 
people can not accept this.  They can not accept that we evolved.

I don't have any problem accepting this prototyping process.  In  fact, I 
kind of like having some idea of how we came into being.  How  we evolved. 
I also hope that we aren't finished evolving yet because I see too many 
problems caused by man and too many idiots out there.  We need to evolve 
into better sentient beings.

I, like you, can accept that we have evolved through a magical process. 
(Please forgive me if  I am putting the wrong words into your mouth.) And, I 
can accept a higher power out there.  I also see no conflict here with the 
theory of evolution.

On the other hand, the proponents of  I.D.  need to have a "scientific" 
means to explain man as appearing one day in a single, miraculous event, and 
that man is in a final and unchangeable state.  This goes directly against 
the theory of evolution.

I find this Kansas debate very disturbing, especially when smart people like 
Mark Bostic chime in and say "In 10 years, half  of the school in American 
will be teaching creation".   I hope, to God ;>), he is wrong, or at least 
that this will not include Canada.

Cheers,

tett
Owen Sound, Ontario




From: "Jamie" <jme-ekholm at cheqnet.net>
To: "meteorite list" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Friday, May 13, 2005 3:31 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Kansas Legal Debate: Creation,Evolution and 
Intelligent Design


> I'm having a difficult time understanding how the idea of God and 
> evolution
> can not co-exist.  It is almost like if you believe in God, you must also
> believe creationism, or if you believe evolution as fact, you can not
> believe in God.
>
> Perhaps there are other definitions of intelligent design, but I have 
> never
> seen it as being even remotely similar to creationism.
>
> Now I don't advocate bringing up religion or intelligent design in school.
> That is not its place.  I think this is a subject one has to draw their 
> own
> conclusions from.  It shouldn't be force fed to anyone.
>
> Jamie
>
>
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