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: Thoughts in a Haystack

Darwin's Place

By John Pieret

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The Rev. Timothy McLemore, senior pastor at Kessler Park United Methodist Church in Oak Cliff, Texas, has some good thoughts on this Evolution Weekend:

If we believe God is truth, we don't need to shrink from truth in whatever way it presents itself. We don't have to be threatened.
I think the Bible gives us a great creation account, and I think it's profoundly true. I just don't think it was ever intended to be scientifically true or even historically true.
The Bible is true when it teaches who God is and what God is like. The Bible is true when it describes the human condition. The Bible is true when it teaches us about human relationships.
As I understand the complexities and intricacies of what has been produced through human evolution, not only does it not make me want to run away from God, it strikes a chord of wonder and awe that I can only describe as worship.

Concerning attempts to inject Intelligent Design Creationism into science classes:

It seems profoundly unhealthy. Do we really want the government deciding what religious beliefs and viewpoints are taught in school? It's our job to promote our understanding of faith, not the government's job.

From a vastly different perspective, John Wilkins has exercised his usual excellent exposition on the issue of "What's so cool about Darwin?" And Richard Dawkins gives yet another view of Darwin as evidence that science can, ultimately, answer all questions the cosmos presents.

The fate of all discoverers of big ideas is to be many things to many people.

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James McGrath has gathered many resources for Evolution Weekend from the NCSE.
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Full post as published by Thoughts in a Haystack on February 10, 2008 (boomark / email).