Christians are really shooting themselves in the foot by insisting on talking about evolution. They've driven people away from God by telling them they can't believe in the scientific evidence in front of their faces and have faith at the same time.
I just don't get it. I see no serious conflict between evolution and the Bible. No more conflict than I see between Genesis chapters 1 and 2, which contain two entirely different creation stories with a beginning, middle and end.
And there's only a few hundred words in the Bible about creation. How could that possibly be the whole story?
We Christians don't believe in Evolution?
I didn't know that...
"Don't believe in evolution = stupid."
I do not wish to offend the person who wrote this. I have no quarrel with him, but I want to set the record straight for people who think that Christian creationists are de facto antedelluvian knuckle-draggers.
Gregor Mendel, the founder of the science of heredity did not believe in Darwinian evolution, a philosophy in vogue at the time. He said,
“Hybrids between species lose none of their stability after 4 or 5 generations,"
and
“I have never observed gradual transitions between parental characters or a progressive approach toward one of them.”
These are not the quotations of an evolutionist. Additionally, Louis Pasteur did not believe in evolution. Neither did Father Joseph Lemaitre, the first man to propose the concept of the Big Bang based on extrapolating Einstein's Relativity. In contemplating the Big Bang, Father Lemaitre meditated upon the Genesis account of Creation. In his journal he wrote,
"It must have all begun with light.” (See Genesis 1:3)
A close examination of the supposedly two separate creation acounts depicted in Genesis is actually quite easily harmonized. The first account actually describes the creation of the earth and the universe. The second describes the creation of the garden of eve, the sanctuary of temple of creation, of which Adam was to be the high priest, tending the garden in a manner similar to the way God commanded the Levitical priests to tend the Tabernacle.
More than that, in modern times, science has been exalted to the level of deity. Science must explain all things. Many think that it explains the Resurrection event in the gospel to explain it away as something not supernatural. Let us question the dogmatic positions of science.
I, for one, am a Creationist, and I take incredible offense when the self-annointed say that I must be put beneath their boot to win some election. Just to present my credentials, I am an electrical engineer whose undergraduate work emphasized mathematics and physics. I am now pursuing a graduate degree at the University of Wisconisn.