Evolution in the classrooms
I currently live in North Carolina not very far from the Research Triangle. While still in the southern US, it's a pretty progressive area in terms of religious control of the political process. On the other hand, I used to live in Marietta, GA which is in Cobb County where recently the school board has tried to limit the teaching of evolution in classrooms.
Personally I don't have any problem with stickers being placed in textbooks stating that evolution is just a theory. By the time a kid is taking high school biology he or she should be able to see through silly attempts like that by the religious right to limit what they perceive as secular preemption of religious territory. Christianity is based on faith not logic and attempts like Creationism to appeal to logic are odd. They're not going to convince anyone that's relying on logic and scientific methodology and people of faith don't need peculiar 'proofs' of religious tenets. Faith should be enough.
Anyway, I feel the Kierkegaard had it right when he wrote that a true Christian needs to make a leap of faith that transcends logic. It's that leap into the unknown that defines faith. Trying to base religious faith on logical proofs is not only beside the point, it's also undermining the need for true faith.
Personally I don't have any problem with stickers being placed in textbooks stating that evolution is just a theory. By the time a kid is taking high school biology he or she should be able to see through silly attempts like that by the religious right to limit what they perceive as secular preemption of religious territory. Christianity is based on faith not logic and attempts like Creationism to appeal to logic are odd. They're not going to convince anyone that's relying on logic and scientific methodology and people of faith don't need peculiar 'proofs' of religious tenets. Faith should be enough.
Anyway, I feel the Kierkegaard had it right when he wrote that a true Christian needs to make a leap of faith that transcends logic. It's that leap into the unknown that defines faith. Trying to base religious faith on logical proofs is not only beside the point, it's also undermining the need for true faith.
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Ex: One fish believes in water because he's been learned in the water religion,that's faith.Then that other fish feels the water around him and to see if it's true makes a jump above the water,after that he knows he is in the water,
that fish doesn't need faith,he knows.
I'll leave the word 'true' in my blog so anyone wandering through will understand your comment, GPV but it doesn't belong there. Thanks.
mutations....Show me an ape becoming human right away, and I will give those evolutionists benefit of the doubt....but not the other way round, man to monkey LOL!