Buzzygirl wrote:


"uncle arnie" wrote in message
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And there is no contradiction between evolution and religious faith.

Try telling that to the rabid, foaming-at-the-mouth fundies... with them,
it's gotta be either/or. Either you believe in creationism as set forth in
the Bible, or you're a hellbound evolutionist heathen that's in league with
the Antichrist. I'm not specifically picking on Christians here, but their
fundie subgroups are the ones who seem to be making the most noise about
this. Yet I know lots of Christians who believe in evolution. They don't
seem to see any real reason why they can't believe in both God and
evolution.

This whole "intelligent design" thing is just a ploy by the fundies to make
creationism (their version, of course) somehow more palatable to school
boards. To which I say, if you don't like the fact that public schools can't
espouse any particular religious teaching, then send your kids to a
parochial school or home-school them.

Increasing numbers of fundie parents are doing just that. However, I
wonder what kids homeschooled in Biblical literalism and then educated
in fundie universities in "Biblical Science" will do with themselves
once they find out that they have zero skills and are unemployable not
only because they haven't been correctly educated but they tend to
"witness" (preach) their fundie-ism all the time at everybody they meet.
What will happen when their prospective employer questions their fundie
education and their response is "REPENT, ye minion of Satan! How DARE
you question the Words of God?" Uh, don't call us, we'll call you. Saudi
Arabia shows what happens when religion based education runs amok-most
Saudi university graduates are schooled in Islamic literalism and are
utterly unemployable by the big oil firms. The government's attempt to
"Saudi-ize" the foreigner-run oil firms has met with abject failure,
because thousands of Saudis are graduating school able to recite the
Quran and spout the "correct" interpretations but do little else. This
results in masses of unemployable young men with nothing to do, always a
bad omen for any society. And the government has given too much power to
the imams who are more interested in saving souls than in actual
education. The US isn't there-yet-but it's headed in that direction.


I don't profess to know if the universe was 'created' in the Biblical sense.
Being an amateur astronomer, I admit that I have looked up on many more than
a few occasions at the grandeur of the night sky and wondered how it all got
there. But the cosmologists don't have all the answers either. No one does.

Jackie
"Believe those who seek the truth... and doubt those who claim to have found
it"




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