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To: doc30; Ichneumon

You shouldn't attribute to malice behaviors that ignorance suffice to explain.

The fact is that evolution has us on the ropes, we pedestrian Christians that is. Not the science behind it, but the spin the science is given: the worldview projected onto and from the science. Nothing has undermined the faith of our children, our neighbors and our friends more than the possibility that God did not make them, that God is not their Father, but a monkey is their uncle.

I'm lucky, being a Catholic, I do not have to hold to a fundamentalists faith in the story of Genesis. I have to hold on to the Church. However, many of my brethren lost to the Catholic church have the bible alone and if they surrender one word of it, they are on a slippery slope.

The upshot is that we ordinary Christians either turn away from science as we would a persecutor or enemy, or we fight against it. "Science" has become a dirty word, along with "professor" and "doctor."

The best thing an evolutionist could do, the most charitable thing science could do, is to give back to the Christians a foothold for their faith. It's really the only thing that can avert the culture war between Christianity in America and science in America.

Please pardon me for not using macro-evolution as a technical term. I was using the term differently while mixing it with something I parroted from G.K. Chesterton in the Everlasting Man.

You're quite right, you have mountains of evidence. Unfortunately, others have used your mountains of evidence to try to destroy the faith of innocents. I'm certainly not blaming you for this, however, but you see the results are quite plain.


243 posted on 07/09/2005 5:48:04 PM PDT by WriteOn (Truth)
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244 posted on 07/09/2005 6:38:53 PM PDT by PatrickHenry (Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas. The List-O-Links is at my homepage.)
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