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"Do you realize how many millions of synapses and chemical emulsions it took to read and understand this paragraph?"

If you take a first year class in Christian Creation Ethics one of the problems your professor might ask you to wrestle with is, for example, why did God create HIV (the aids virus). In the end, the answer is always some variation of "we don't know." My problem with most of the supposedly faith inspired people on this thread is they keep pretending they know something they really don't. A basic teaching of all our faith communities is that God's creation is wrapped in sacred mystery. We simply do not comprehend the fullness of creation. It is obscene to suggest we have mastered what we hold sacred. Perhaps some of the posters would spend their time more wisely if they studied the teachings of their faith rather than want to fight science.

It is obscene to suggest we have mastered what we hold sacred. Perhaps some of the posters would spend their time more wisely if they studied the teachings of their faith rather than want to fight science.

Excellent point.

Science is a rigidly systematic study of the universe. It's no good fighting it from the outside, as creation/ID is doing. You can try to shoot the messenger, but as long as anyone is doing science right and you can't shoot the universe, you might as well stop trying to dictate what science is allowed to find.