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Darwin Goes to Church
Washington Post ^ | 9/18/2005 | Rev. Henry G. Brinton

Posted on 09/20/2005 5:35:52 PM PDT by curiosity

Most adult Sunday school classes don't raise eyebrows, but my church is planning to hold one that's sure to. It's called "Evolution for Christians," and it will be taught this winter by David Bush, a member of the church I lead, Fairfax Presbyterian. David is an articulate government retiree who has been interested in this topic for nearly two decades, teaches a class on theories of the origins of life every five years or so, and once again has really done his homework. His view is that science and religion answer two different sets of questions about creation, with science answering the "how" questions, and religion answering the "why" ones. "With a little bit of wisdom and tolerance on each side," he tells me, "I think they can complement rather than contradict each other."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Philosophy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: allcrevoallthetime; christianity; creation; crevo; crevolist; crevorepublic; darwinism; enoughalready; evolution; religion; unbelief
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To: BeHoldAPaleHorse
You've got no argument with me, brother (except about nominalism, maybe).
121 posted on 09/20/2005 7:28:06 PM PDT by curiosity
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To: VadeRetro

Needs to do a bit of research I think.


122 posted on 09/20/2005 7:28:17 PM PDT by RadioAstronomer (Senior member of Darwin Central)
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To: curiosity

"Incorrect. God cannot lie because it is not in his nature to lie."

Whatever. So, God, by his nature, does not lie.

So, what am I to make of the evidence provided by applying His gift of reason to observations of His works?


123 posted on 09/20/2005 7:28:29 PM PDT by BeHoldAPaleHorse
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To: VadeRetro

http://www.darwinism-watch.com/


124 posted on 09/20/2005 7:28:50 PM PDT by keithtoo (Howard Dean is a Rove plant, Rove is a NeoCon plant, NeoCons are Trilateralist plants....)
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To: curiosity

So, God took billions of years to create the Heavens and the Earth.

What's to say He didn't take billions of years longer to create man, and that He chose to do so in a way that doesn't leave His fingerprints all over the place?

God works on a timescale that beggars the imagination of us mere mortals.


125 posted on 09/20/2005 7:31:48 PM PDT by BeHoldAPaleHorse
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To: keithtoo
Harun Yahyah? Wouldn't have guessed you were a Mecca-bower.
126 posted on 09/20/2005 7:31:49 PM PDT by VadeRetro (Liberalism is a cancer on society. Creationism is a cancer on conservatism.)
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To: TXnMA
As I suspected: a "yomist "-- who won't (or can't) comprehend the facts of relativity.

Hmm... fascinating. Now, if you're quite finished with the condescension, perhaps you'd care to enlighten me.

127 posted on 09/20/2005 7:31:55 PM PDT by newgeezer (fundamentalist, regarding the Constitution AND the Holy Bible. Words mean things!)
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To: keithtoo; VadeRetro

Interesting. A Muslim site.


128 posted on 09/20/2005 7:33:46 PM PDT by RadioAstronomer (Senior member of Darwin Central)
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To: keithtoo
No, I am correcting someone who knows very very little about evolutionary theory; not avoiding the question.

The fact that you know so little about the subject is not, in and of itself, impressive; but the fact that you are so evidently proud of your ignorance on the subject IS quite impressive.

How many people have to correct you about your mistaken impression of the "Red Queen Hypothesis" (a Lewis Carrol allusion to those of you in Rio Linda) before you actually read something about it that will tell you just how wrong you are?

And Michael Behe would say that we DID evolve from single-celled organisms; but only with the "help" of some intelligence that acted with an unknown force utilizing an unquantifiable mechanism rather than as a result of a process utilizing a known force and a quantifiable mechanism.

Jeez, you don't even know ID theory, let alone the theory of evolution through natural selection.
129 posted on 09/20/2005 7:35:16 PM PDT by Mylo ( scientific discovery is also an occasion of worship.)
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To: BeHoldAPaleHorse
You're preaching to the converted.
130 posted on 09/20/2005 7:36:23 PM PDT by curiosity
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To: RadioAstronomer; keithtoo
That site has turned me away from ID because ID does not acknoledge Allah as the creator! Allahu Akhbar!
131 posted on 09/20/2005 7:37:48 PM PDT by VadeRetro (Liberalism is a cancer on society. Creationism is a cancer on conservatism.)
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To: VadeRetro

Yup, I am right with ya!


132 posted on 09/20/2005 7:38:31 PM PDT by RadioAstronomer (Senior member of Darwin Central)
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To: VadeRetro

Bah! Pixels on a computer screen! That's not proof!


133 posted on 09/20/2005 7:39:20 PM PDT by Gumlegs
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To: VadeRetro

It does not acknowledge "John Frum" as the True Creator! Intelligent Design is a fraud!

(The preceding message was brought to you by the United Cargo Cults of the Solomon Islands.)


134 posted on 09/20/2005 7:40:54 PM PDT by BeHoldAPaleHorse
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To: Gumlegs

Enough proof for you "chicken legs"!


135 posted on 09/20/2005 7:41:26 PM PDT by RadioAstronomer (Senior member of Darwin Central)
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To: Gumlegs

Hey, half man half chicken, there ya go, proof of evolution! :-)


136 posted on 09/20/2005 7:42:31 PM PDT by RadioAstronomer (Senior member of Darwin Central)
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To: BeHoldAPaleHorse
Having had a very nice Spaghetti Bolognese dinner tonight, I have to hold out for "ID does not acknowledge His Noodliness, the Flying Spaghetti Monster."
137 posted on 09/20/2005 7:43:40 PM PDT by VadeRetro (Liberalism is a cancer on society. Creationism is a cancer on conservatism.)
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To: VadeRetro; BeHoldAPaleHorse

Mustard and marshmallow sandwiches for me. :-)


138 posted on 09/20/2005 7:45:04 PM PDT by RadioAstronomer (Senior member of Darwin Central)
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To: RadioAstronomer
Eeeewww!!
139 posted on 09/20/2005 7:46:06 PM PDT by VadeRetro (Liberalism is a cancer on society. Creationism is a cancer on conservatism.)
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To: keithtoo
but if Evolution is true, you should be able to see them living and breathing everywhere. As a matter of fact, if evolution is logical, there should be more intermediate forms than fully formed species.

What do you think an 'intermediate' species would look like?

140 posted on 09/20/2005 7:46:21 PM PDT by malakhi
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