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...
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This addresses the larger question of how to get science and religion to get along, but I think you would really enjoy reading Ken Wilber, starting with this one: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0767903439/
If the teaching of "creationism" and other religious shenanigans bothers you,
consider joining the Freedom from Religion Foundation
or Americans United for
Separation of Church and State.
Well - believe it or not - I will say that I agree with you especially the last statement. We are way to wrapped around the axle of the past - our present state is where we should focus, well said. As I have gotten older I have been spooned small portions of wisdom from God or my sub-conscious or the collective consciousness whatever, most of them have been useless tidbits usually pertaining to how the world works - you know - things like how that the speed of the person in front of you on the highway is relative to the speed you entered into the cruise control, usually 1 to 2 miles an hour slower, and some have been very useful such as the law of "righty tighty, lefty loosey" - these type of revelations are way to infrequent. And so far none of these "lightbulbs" have shown light on the big questions, life after death, origins of life, smooth or chunky, etc. But at some point we have to make our way, our choices, based on something out of the realm of intuition or accumulated information. We have to make them based on feeling - and no matter what anyone would like you to believe I think that the choice of origin is a choice made in the heart or even in the gut rather than in the mind. And this is true whether you speak of the origin of the individual or the species or the cosmos. Whoever or whatever that started the ball rolling did not make the way clear enough for anyone to say definitively what the path of the past was... and from where I stand my gut/heart tells me that was on purpose. After all what is the point of our having to take the trip without a map - unless the way we go is the focus rather than the destination.
Post Script - I still can beat your ass in trivia. And I love you and miss you....
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