There was a moment in the creation of the world when the Creator held a bit of clay in the palm of his hand and asked what sort of creature it wished to be. The first spoke that it would wish to be human, to which the Creator responded, injured: “Of all my children, humans know the least of love.”
Carefully, the first spoke, “Then I shall teach them."
—Ventura (my novel)
I was five when I asked myself how the world began, standing in front of a mirror I could barely see into. It's still hard for me to understand how infinitesimal we actually are, how insignificant in the grand scheme of things. Yet, as sentient creatures, we have the ability to attempt to understand. Religions have done it for years, however biased their opinions may be. What specifically annoys me is Creationism - the theory that God created the world in six days, 6,500 years ago.
And then a fossil for a prehistoric man — the 1.7 million-year-old Turkana Boy turns up (1984). That's only 2,500 times the age. No biggie. Must have been a divine decoration.
When such compelling evidence in the favor of evolution turns up, when there's so much history behind us that religion cannot give us — the truest story of human success, the world is pressured to discourage one view in favor of another.
I have always advocated the side in an issue with the most evidence, yet picking sides at all leads me to wonder why Creationism came about, why it thrust out its bastard child "Intelligent Design", and most of all, why religion and science are mixing so terribly. I read Angels And Demons by Dan Brown in the past week, and I suppose...I can understand that faith is important to so many people. But how can you blindly ignore the secrets our world is showing us? Isn't it a better thought to think of a benevolent protector than a creator who regularly goes about smashing things with the creativity of a child and a box of Lego blocks?
The worst part about Creationism and Intelligent Design is the rigidity of the structure and the absolute stupidity of some of the ideas. How do you explain dinosaurs? What about a millenia of fossils? What about gravity? (this comes from a theory I found where a man tried to explain that gravity was false because birds and planes defied it at a regular basis; what he failed to understand was that if a bird stops flying, it falls.) Apparently, medical students who have learned science under Intelligent Design are failing those college classes - because viruses can't evolve if they were created that way! Newton's laws of matter and energy don't apply to the divine!
"But science only governs the natural; God governs the supernatural."
Let me ask you this: how many supernatural events do you see happening every day? And how many natural events do you think deities are taking credit for, involuntarily? Are the gods of our world being manipulated and destroyed for the sake of conservative politics and biased literature? Can't we just blame ourselves for once and not the powers that be? To be human is to understand that perfection and superiority is reserved for creatures such as that.
I encourage everyone to share their thoughts on this, any thoughts at all. I'd like to know what everyone thinks about the issue at hand.
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Josie said:
I have grown up in Christian faith my entire life, my dad being a minister. My dad has always told me not to talk the bible literal because it was written by man, not by God and that their morals were just as twisted back then as some of ours are today. The whole issue is very confusing to me and I’ve never put in too much time thinking about it.
Posted on August 18, 2006 7:47 AM; Permalink
Biscuitrat said:
And that’s admirable. Faith only exists among humans because we’re the only ones who can believe. But using that religion to just remove the sense from science is terrible, and I’m sure many religions have done that. I would have cited more examples, but I’m sure it would have been passed over for its controversy :/
Posted on August 18, 2006 3:28 PM; Permalink
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