Some more on evolution
As one who believes that God made the world through the mechanisms of evolution, I feel extremely strongly about this subject. To me, the story of evolution conveys God's grandeur far more thoroughly and beautifully than does a literal interpretation of the first chapters of Genesis (although I value Genesis greatly as poetry and allegory).I'm with Laura on this. My God is big enough to use evolution (and quantum physics as well, despite Einstein's doubts.) It is hard for me to understand anyone who 'opposes' teaching evolution. It is pretty obvious that either evolution is at least part of how mankind, and every other creature came to be. There may be other mechanisms that we do not understand yet, but it is a simple fact that creatures change over time via natural selection. There is one other feasible possibility of course. A supreme, omnipotent being could conceivable have created the earth and the Universe 6000 years ago (or yesterday for that matter) with an intact history. Even if this were true however, that being obviously had a purpose in creating the evolutionary history we can observe and it seems to me that the purpose would have to be for us to study and learn from it. Click through to Laura's post for the bit on pink Algae as well. Pretty cool stuff.
posted by Dave Justus | 6/20/2005 10:44:00 AM
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If I believed in a supreme being creating planets, then I would most certainly go with the approach that they indeed created the Earth a little longer ago then first imagined, because, like you say, evolution is all around us and not some made up theory created out of thin air.
Unfortunately, once you accept that piece of cheese, you must now wonder about the popping into existence of Adam and Eve, all of the animals that instantly appeared, and the whole bagatting thing. :)
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