Yet, you place utter faith in man's "Science", which is at its heart, a human institution, and thuis heir to all the foibles and follies human nature has to offer...
the infowarrior
And science also doesn't claim truth, eternal and everlasting, just fact. Facts don't change, but interpretation of them does. As we learn more, hypotheses and theories need to be updated.....that's what science does. Claiming absolute, inalterable truth is what troglodytes do....such as saying a pedophile murderer was the "seal of the prophets," and seeking to eliminate all other forms of belief. Earlier in this thread someone said that two-thirds of Americans didn't accept evolution. While I doubt the number (one survey showed closer to 45%, and I was taught at the school I went to that 2/3 is 66%), it misses the point: Facts are facts. Science is neither populist nor democratic. The fossil record can be read, the theory can be tested and proven, genetic testing can suggest relationships between genera and species, and new information can lead to changes in hypotheses and theories. Say what you want, but man is fallible. We learn new things, and correct ourselves. God gives us a moral structure, but it was man who wrote the Bible....and as I've said before, if you want to take it literally and condemn all who don't accept literalism and inerrancy as unchanging doctrine, that's your right. But it's also my right to keep to my beliefs in a God who gave man a brain to study and learn about the mechanisms of His creation and to not accept Wahabbi Christianity. Christ died to save us from our sins, not to save us from scientific inquiry.
You got it right infowarrior.
People balance the Word of God with the word of man.
Fortunately, passing the origins test isnt a factor to a persons entry into heaven.
Unfotunately, it does tend to lead people into discrediting Gods Word and they choose man and they distrust God.