Well, at least we have *one* honest anti-evolutionist. The rest keep denying that they're following the propaganda strategy of The Wedge Document.
But haven't you heard? The "intelligent design" folks keep swearing that it's *not* about religion, and in fact the "designer" might well be aliens, and besides, it would be good to teach students that the designer could be dead. I guess you missed the memo.
As to Darwinism being "valid science," I don't accept that. Never have.
Really? Then how do you explain the vast amounts of evidence and research along multiple independent cross-conforming lines which have repeatedly validated "Darwinism"? Mere coincidence, you think? Or is God trying to fake us out?
It's humanist cock & bull.
Then why are the *majority* of American evolutionists *Christians*? I think something is wrong with your cartoonish conspiracy theory. And how do you explain your presumption in light of these folks?
The "Clergy Letter Project": An Open Letter Concerning Religion and ScienceBut hey, I guess *you* know better than 10,000+ Christian clergy, eh?
"We the undersigned, Christian clergy from many different traditions, believe that the timeless truths of the Bible and the discoveries of modern science may comfortably coexist. We believe that the theory of evolution is a foundational scientific truth, one that has stood up to rigorous scrutiny and upon which much of human knowledge and achievement rests. To reject this truth or to treat it as “one theory among others” is to deliberately embrace scientific ignorance and transmit such ignorance to our children. We believe that among God’s good gifts are human minds capable of critical thought and that the failure to fully employ this gift is a rejection of the will of our Creator. To argue that God’s loving plan of salvation for humanity precludes the full employment of the God-given faculty of reason is to attempt to limit God, an act of hubris. We urge school board members to preserve the integrity of the science curriculum by affirming the teaching of the theory of evolution as a core component of human knowledge. We ask that science remain science and that religion remain religion, two very different, but complementary, forms of truth.
[As of 29 January 2006, there are 10,230 signatures collected to date]
Click the links that follow to see the alphabetical lists of clergy members who have endorsed this letter
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The "intelligent design" folks keep swearing that it's *not* about religion, and in fact the "designer" might well be aliens,
The creator was from outer space and an alien, don't you know?
John 17:14 I have given them your word and the world has hated them, for they are not of the world any more than I am of the world.
John 17:15 My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one.(EVO)
John 17:16 They are not of the world, even as I am not of it.