I would agree that Christians are unfairly targeted for derision and persecution. Some crosses are worth bearing. Just don’t think this is one of them.
The Bible is a much better tool for spiritual development than historical development. I think that science and faith are very supportive of one another, not in conflict. To try to re-mold the Biblical story of creation into a science, is intellectually dis-honest and spiritually un-necessary.
This attempt of Intelligent Design reminds me of some forms of mysticism that try to attribute the actual words of the Bible to do what is essentially fortune telling. I doubt that was the intention of the writers. Wisdom is not so hidden in the Holy text. Science was not the objective. Spiritual explanations of events and phenomena are not inherently in conflict. Neither, degrades the other.
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Thank you for your post- but I must strongly dissagree and say that ID isn’t an attempt to model anything, an that I think that Christians can and indeed should explore science to find the fignerprints of God- Yes, when evangelizing, the bible is al lthat is needed, however, I don’t beleive Christians are constrained to just evangelize and that God has given some great powers of observation and great examinatory powers which I think they should use to pursue science in the correct path instead of the wrong dead end rabbit trail that we’ve been handed for 150 years with the hypothesis of Macroevolution. God gives each person unique gifts, and to some, I beleive He gave the gift of objective research and understanding in particular fields of science and medicines.