[PatrickHenry]

I added the bolding, and the three links [in brackets.]

This is the 300th thread I've posted, not counting those pulled during the Luddite War. Everyone be nice.

[Misterioso]

It's become clear that God, himself, has been evolving over the years.

[Tailgunner Joe]

The problem is that evolutionists keep insisting that their theories prove there is no God. They turn science into a religion, and an anti-Christian one. Stop misusing science to make dubious theological claims and you won't get into fights with theologians.

[furball4paws]

And you do a very good job.

[hosepipe]

[ Evangelicals divided over evolution ]

Evangelicals would divide over what rug to put in the sanctuary.. or just exactly how holy is holy water or NOT.. Herding Evangelicals are like herding cats.. kind of like free republic.. really..

[jennyp]

This is the 300th thread I've posted, not counting those pulled during the Luddite War.

I forget, where do you find that statistic?

"Obiwan Henry, years ago you posted with my father during the Luddite Wars..."

[Liberal Classic]

This is a rare article, in that it documents the existance of religious support for evolutionary science. Though the article does not say it explicitly, one can also imply that there exists Republican and/or conservative support for evolutionary science, as well.

[lifelongsoldier]

While it takes a leap of faith to believe in a Creator, at least there is something in that belief that presupposes a beginning. The greater leap of faith required to believe in evolution (as the origin of life) presupposes that everything came into being from nothing. Which is harder to believe, that an intelligent being spoke into existence the entire universe as we know it, or that random molecular movement (then where did the molecules come from) resulted in the entire universe as we know it?

Have any of you considered that the entire record of Creation, as given in the Torah, is written in poetic form?

[cookcounty]

" the debate over teaching evolution in public schools"

There's a debate about teaching evolution in public schools? I know of some that are debating teaching possibilities alongside evolution, but what school district, specifically, is debating teaching evolution?

---Anybody?

[PGalt]

We were all created. Many devolve.

[ZULU]

Evangelicals are divided between Ayatollah Christians and people who can think.

The Bible is a theological work, not a biology text.

Its function is to lead people to salvation through teaching them the proper way to live and receive God's word and salvation.

It is not meant to convey a biological-cosmological message to a tribe of neolithic nomads.

It is perfectly acceptable to believe in the Bible, accept Christ as your personal saviour, and believe in evolution.

Anti-evolutionist Christians are an embarrassment to their faith and a throwback to anti-Gallilean astronomers.

[OB1kNOb]

Monkeys standing left of me
Humans to the right,
Here we are
Stuck in the middle again.

(With apologies to Stealer's Wheel....)

[biblewonk]

Can God and evolution coexist?

Only if God says that evolution is true in the bible, otherwise, no.

[Lurking Libertarian]

This is the 300th thread I've posted,

Mazal tov!

[sheltonmac]

For many evangelical Christians, the debate over teaching evolution in public schools touches a vital spiritual nerve.

You know, if evangelicals would put half as much effort into trying to convince Christian parents to keep their kids out of the government-run school system as they put into debating the evolution issue, this wouldn't even be a problem. Put another way, if parents are resigned to push their child into oncoming traffic, arguing about whether the traffic should be flowing to the left or right is rather pointless.

The fact that Christian parents--or any self-respecting parent, for that matter--would entrust the state to raise and educate their children frustrates me much more than the creation vs. evolution debate.

[wimpycat]

John 1:3

Case closed.

Amen!

[Protagoras]

Luddite War.

I don't remember that one.

[nightdriver]

"The academy has gathered the signatures of more than 4,000 Christian clergy, including evangelicals, supporting evolution as "a foundational scientific truth."

That's really unfortunate, because it shows that a lot of "Christians" have not read their Bibles very carefully. There is a passage from which it can be inferred that there was at least one creation that included men that existed before Adam. Therefore, it would seem unnecessary to countenance evolution at all to answer the "scientists."

If Christians would just study more and indulge in pointless arguments less, they would be stronger in their faith and better off.