[RubberChickenGirl]

I am in full support of you. Hoping for an excellent turn out and open minds.

My son is doing an Origins course including works by Dembski and Behe and others supporting ID and, of course, Darwin and Dawkins supporting THE MONOLITHIC IMMOVABLE TRUTH. We are doing this at home since such open exploration of ALL possibilities is not welcome in the classroom. All perspectives on origins work with the same facts, but come at them from different presumptions and end up with vastly different conclusions. All sides require *faith* in the end imo. It is equally improbable to the human mind that all things came from nothing spontaneously w/o forethought(whence the elements?) or that all things came from an Intelligent Source. One side won’t admit this.

Historically, the scientific community always flips its whig at upstarts (and ends up wrong more often than not).

[leonid]

Historically, the scientific community always flips its whig at upstarts (and ends up wrong more often than not).

This is the reason science has been successful for as long as we have been using it. It gives us room to make mistakes or overlook things and, then when they are observed/noticed, try to fit new findings in with the current theory/ies.

Creationism is nothing new, my friend. Many religious people have somehow branded certain areas of research as "evil" or "immoral" simply because it opposes what they believe in, which is kind-of hypocritical when you think about how Americans strongly dislike discrimination and general close-mindedness.

Obviously science has done plenty for us or we would not be paying so much for it. You need to take a second to count your blessings and stop acting like the scientific community is out to the hurt religion with a hidden agenda in their belt. We take so much science for granted and it really is a shame. Knowledge is power, a gift from God.. We would not have a brain had he not intended it for use. :)