[GodGunsGuts]

Ping!

[presently no screen name]

He writes that "Darwinism wasn't initially opposed by Christians" and credits William Jennings Bryan with rallying the faithful against evolution.

And I write..."It's more like evolution initially opposed God's Word".

[BillT]

Mendel proved Darwin wrong almost immediately.

[mikeus_maximus]

Darwin and his ideas functioned as a Rorschach test. Those who felt religious tradition to be a burden tended to see evolution as a source of liberation.

And so it is today.

[jessduntno]

[Tax-chick]

I'm a big fan of Rod Dreher. ... and now that you know that, you can disregard anything further I might say.

[steve-b]

So, basically, the anti-evolution argument boils down to:

You can't handle the truth!

[tumblindice]

“Enough is enough! I’ve had it with these muthacrunchycon snakes in muthacrunchycon church!”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObhvOeNCKhs

A ding dang diddly darned mad Ned Flanders

[Madam Theophilus]

I would recommend these sources as to historical surveys on the Christian church’s and Protestant teaching on creation.

THE GREAT TURNING POINT by Terry Mortenson

Protestant Reformed Journal, Volume XXXVI, November 2002,
“In the Space of Six Days,” by Mark L. Shane (an excellent historical survey of the church’s teaching on creation and how reformed denominations came under the influence of Darwinism) The article is continued in the April, 2003 and November, 2003 issues.
http://www.prca.org/prtj/index.html

There are also several historical essays in the newly published: COMING TO GRIPS WITH GENESIS: BIBLICAL AUTHORITY AND THE AGE OF THE EARTH edited by Terry Mortenson PhD. and Thane H. Ury PhD.

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[<1/1,000,000th%]

It began with the Roman author, Pliny the Elder, who believed that fossil shark teeth fell from the sky.

[Ben Ficklin]

This is an accurate observation by Discovery I, but like always, DI misses the big picture.

Brian's populism, fundamentalism, and isolationism was a result of the US economy shifting from agrarian to industrial.

Today, the same forces are at work because the US economy is shifting from industrial to information.

[Zionist Conspirator]

[Sarcasm] I thought that everyone had always believed in Darwinism from the very beginning of time and that it was only in the nineteenth century that a few “racist rednecks” started casting doubts on it for the first time in history. Isn’t this what they tell us? [/Sarcasm]