[lodity]

I thought this was a good commentary on the evolution controversy in Georgia.

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

The beautiful thing is that the more we understand science, the more it points to a creator. See "The Creator and the Cosmos" "Evolution: A Theory in Crisis" "The Face" et. al.

GummyIII - More inanimate things coming to life Ping!

[supercat]

Why can't people accept that while it is clear that some of the diversity of life on this planet is a consequence of evolution, and that evolution should be studied and examined as an on-going process, that in no way implies that all of the diversity of life on this planet is a consequence of evolution.

One very important lesson students (and scientists, and historians) need to grasp and remember is that examination of a system's present state often cannot reveal its past state with certainty, or even with a bounded degree of uncertainty. One may determine that a proposed past state would have a higher level of probability of yielding the current state than would any other proposed past state, but that would not imply that there were not any other past states that could have yielded the present one.

[gcruse]

In Georgia, the theory of evolution is on trial, and the Bible thumping fundamentalists are out to reverse scientific progress. Okay, not really --

No, really.

[eagle11]

You see, evolutionary theory is really a religion. It's a philosophy that many atheists have tried to intertwine with science. Forgive me, but for those of us Christians with the intelligence to distinguish between true science and atheistic dogma, we don't need a lecture from those who call Creationism a science. Creationism is itself a theological doctrine, not all Christians believe it is a literal account of how the universe came to be. Evolution is a scientific theory, it may not be factual, but natural selection is fact, and must be a factor behind the diversity of life on Earth today. Lectures on the dangers of taking evolution the wrong way by Christian fundamentalists continues to insult my intellgence. It's as bad as the lefwingers lecturing me on their phoney science of global warming.