Methinks the I.D. momentum is causing a panic to create ANYTHING that shuts up questions about O.O.L...
Can't understand why I.D., which is pure creationism in disguise, as I keep being told, and thus it is a pure hoax, has such a profound ability to upset very smart, intelligent people.
Like the ones at Harvard who have formed a huge, new, cross disciplinary O.O.L. institute to answer that question.
It is a real head scratcher.
Maybe they're just whistling past the graveyard....
A lot of people have invested a great deal of time and energy to fortify and shore-up themselves against God. If God really does exist, however, then they are in deep doo-doo, and I think the more thoughtful ones realize this. Therefore, God "can't possibly be true, because I'm so smart and I said so."
I know it's silly, even infantile. But deep-down, I really think that's how anti-Christian bigots think, and that's why they act the way they do. Look at Richard Dawkins: I've never seen anyone invest so much time and energy and sheer spite doing battle against what he insists does not and cannot exist: That would be God and soul.
But if God really doesn't exist, then why bother "doing battle" with Him? In the end, Dawkins comes across as an ersatz Don Quixote, tilting at windmills; but with far less charm, manners, and grace than the old Don had....
Honestly gobucks, I really think the whole world is going nutz these days.... Thanks so much for writing!
Hardly, this is an old idea.
Because there is a virulent political movement to force it into the science curriculum?