Geeeeez- enough already!
This started as a comment on Streak's Blog. Read his whole post- he does a nice recap of the issues for the last few days, especially since the Daily Show is on reruns:-). Bush is finally clarifying things in He's-the-president-that's-why fashion. I'm a little curious why all the fuss over continuing the patriot act- Bush can just continue doing what he wants- because he's the president! Is it just me, or does it seem that far fetched for him to use this same reasoning to convince himself and others that any lengths would be justified to avoid changing presidents during a shooting war? Say, last year? Maybe in Ohio?
On Intelligent Design issues- I'm so relieved that polls about Americans' beliefs about creation and ID are being used by pundits to justify teaching it in school. This will look particularly impressive historically, like the Ptolemy/church thing- church dogma tied to scientific theory has such an impressive track record. Polls, it seems, can reflect public opinion, but for a while now science isn't very democratic. Truth and verifiable science don't seem to care much what the public consensus is at the time. I must admit, though, I'm experiencing guilty hopes that the anti-evolution folks are right- the whole germ theory thing is really a pain. Think of how much we'll save on antibiotics - bacteria can't evolve so there's no need for new antibiotics to combat resistant strains. I guess my cold last week was really just sin messing with my balance of earth, air, fire and water.
My belief about God isn't threatened by evolution. A personal relationship with the Creator isn't dependent on making sure the Bible is literally true. I think we have to be careful how much our faith depends on a document that isn't a science treatise. Do we have a faith in a personal God or is our faith in book so long as it is held to be factually, historically, and scientifically accurate? Finally, one of the beauties of America is our (for at least some of us, anyway) belief that just because I believe a certain way, doesn't mean that I can impose it on you. If I'm studying math, I want a mathemetician teaching me. If it's science, then a scientist. Keep the fundamentalist theologians in the Bible colleges.
On Intelligent Design issues- I'm so relieved that polls about Americans' beliefs about creation and ID are being used by pundits to justify teaching it in school. This will look particularly impressive historically, like the Ptolemy/church thing- church dogma tied to scientific theory has such an impressive track record. Polls, it seems, can reflect public opinion, but for a while now science isn't very democratic. Truth and verifiable science don't seem to care much what the public consensus is at the time. I must admit, though, I'm experiencing guilty hopes that the anti-evolution folks are right- the whole germ theory thing is really a pain. Think of how much we'll save on antibiotics - bacteria can't evolve so there's no need for new antibiotics to combat resistant strains. I guess my cold last week was really just sin messing with my balance of earth, air, fire and water.
My belief about God isn't threatened by evolution. A personal relationship with the Creator isn't dependent on making sure the Bible is literally true. I think we have to be careful how much our faith depends on a document that isn't a science treatise. Do we have a faith in a personal God or is our faith in book so long as it is held to be factually, historically, and scientifically accurate? Finally, one of the beauties of America is our (for at least some of us, anyway) belief that just because I believe a certain way, doesn't mean that I can impose it on you. If I'm studying math, I want a mathemetician teaching me. If it's science, then a scientist. Keep the fundamentalist theologians in the Bible colleges.
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