Knows and Knows-Not...

Spuper-Bowl Sunday was typical. Frends arrived, friends hugged, other friends arrived later, food was plentiful... icky queso, guac, chicken fried steak revived from my Grand-Dad's skillet, Key Lime pie lifted from my Mom (my version was a bit custard-y), and discussion was rife. I still marvel at the fact that one of my bestest friends is so incredibly intelligent (stats, trivia, general knowledge [ and if he is reading, yes, you most always beat me at Triv]), but clings to a creationist faith while working in a scientific venue. Now, we all have our dicotomies and I guess at base the conflict twixt Creationism vs. Evolutionism seems a valid argument. I disagree... vehemently.

What we have here (and he'll appreciate this) is a mock battle of Faith vs. Science. Creationism, tautologically speaking, is a faith-based belief, while Evolution is a scientific theory. The two are not, let me repeat, NOT comparable. How so you ask...or shriek?? Fact is folks, one is independent of the other and ne'er the twain shall meet 'cause it is just not proselytized. What I mean to impart is that the age-old dilemma of Hominid vs. Adam just doesn't hold water 'cause they are two different disciplines. There should no more be animosity between "C" and "E" than there should be between... well, there are two no more disparate subjects than these. Hence the immense controversy. "What we have here is a failure to communicate"... a basic inability to acknowledge the right of each to his own.

AND, by virtue of that, an inability to accept our fellow human (in all his evolutionary divinity, or divine evolution) as just that... a FELLOW. MMMmmmmmm, we fail miserably as a global community to realize that it is not how we came to be, but how we ARE that will shape our now.

It's just a thought...