"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.

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"