I am Catholic and don't believe in a literal translation of Genesis (6 day creation theory), but I do believe in intelligent design - the complexity of life demands that something other than chance was at work. Statistically, the enormous number of changes required to get one species to "evolve" into another is impossible to arrive at by chance alone, and even the evolutionists will admit that they haven't found a way for the math to work, given the theory as it currently exists. Evolution is an extremely flawed theory on many different levels, and yet it is taught to children as absolute fact, with no alternative being presented at all! I am not so much concerned about the religious aspect of this as I am about the scientific ramifications - why should entire generations of children be indoctrinated with a flawed theory which is on the decline? If anything, they should be focusing on all that is wrong with evolution and discussing other explanations, not being sheltered from them. Just my $.02...
How come it's the religious people who are concerned about the science, but the scientists aren't concerned?
The science is solid behind Evolution, and you been misinformed about the statistics, the 2nd law of thermodynamics, and all the other attempts by religious people to tear down Evolution because they have some wierd litteral belief in the exact wording of Genesis.
In my interpretation of Genesis, there is no conflict between it and science. This is a political issue being used by some scoundrels, not a science issue.
May I ask why you don't believe in the 6 day creation account, what would make you believe the 6 days (scripture being the context)aren't literal? Why wouldn't God just say over many, many generations the world was created? Just wondering what your thoughts are.
It is? Care to share some of these revelations?
and yet it is taught to children as absolute fact, with no alternative being presented at all!
Absolute fact? BTW, what alternative do you propose?