Evolution debate: State board should reject pseudoscience

Columbus Dispatch ^ | February 17, 2002 | Editorial

[far sider]

Potato chips? Corn chips? What? Tell us, dude.

[far sider]

I'm new here. Let me try again. The genetic material of humans and chips are almost identical on a molecular level. Potato chips? Corn chips?

[PatrickHenry]

Careful. If you keep posting at this rate, you'll hit the magic 1,000 mark, and you'll end up being medved's roomate on the loveboat.

[Junior]

Gee, you get caught quote-mining red handed, and attempt to weedle out of it by bantering semantics. You haven't read any real science since that nice old guy down the street introduced you to Saturnism...

[cracker]

This may turn into a rather bizarre game of 'chicken'.

[Lurking Libertarian]

So, we all (or should I say ALL) came into existence by chance. The Universe, laws of nature, life itself, and our own intelligence – we just lucked into it. For the sake of argument, God does not exist – just luck and nature. So now we are just left with the puzzle of ‘how’ and science is the key. Once we have put the puzzle together, by way of science, we shall have understanding and control of nature.

Not at all what I believe, and I am on the evolutionists' side in this debate.

God exists, and in His glorious He wisdom made a universe with such marvelous natural laws that-- as He knew and intended from the start-- those natural processes would, in God's own good time, produce a being with the ability to reason, understand, and exercise free will.

By using our God-given reason to understand the laws of nature, including the processes of evolution, we are doing God's will.