America has a complex and enduring commitment to pluralism. We want people to be free to act ”” and believe ”” as they please. But we must all play in the same sandbox, so we are attentive to the idiosyncrasies of our playmates, especially when they don’t make sense to us.
Few idiosyncrasies are more perplexing than the ways people connect science and religion. Widespread rejection of evolution, to take a familiar example, has created a crisis in education, and it now appears that biology texts might be altered to satisfy anti-evolutionary activists in Texas. Many on the textbook commission believe their religion is incompatible with scientific explanations of origins ”” evolution and the Big Bang ”” so they want textbooks with more accommodating theories and different facts.
Most of the evangelical Christians that I know have no problem with the concept of micro evolution, but there are significant problems with macro evolution, including significant scientific objections that should be openly and freely debated. The problem is from the athiests who have an a priori that everything is mechanistic and that there is no God. By not allowing for the possibility that God exists, they effectively shut down the conversation.
Yet, talk to astronomers about the possibility that there is a God. Talk to the geologists about the possibility that life sprang from inanimate matter in a geologic instant after the meteorite shower that bombarded the earth and made it uninhabitible ended and the surface of the earth cooled enough to allow the possibility for any life to exist. It is estimated that it took about 50 million years for the crust to cool sufficiently for life to be possible after the great meteorite shower, and an amazing thing happened. About 50 million years after the great meteorite shower ended, life sprang forth. The Cambrian period started in a geoligic instant. There was no vast amount of time for a naturalistic spontaneous evolution of life to occur. There just wasn’t time.
So, let’s talk science when we talk about creation. But let’s not leave out the bits that refute the evolutionary model. We also need to remove all the proven evolutionary frauds that are still included in science texts around the nation. Christians aren’t afraid of science, but evolutionists sure are afraid of some scientific facts and they sure are afraid to have proven frauds removed from the textbooks.
I would be very interested to hear an evolutionary explanation of how inorganic molecules suddenly sprang to life. Shoot, I would even be interested in how the long chains of peptides was able to form without a cell wall and more importantly…WHERE DID THE INFORMATION CODE COME FROM???