Creation VS. Evolution Rant
I weary of the seeming constant yammer of the creation/evolution debate. I weary of the evangelical requirement to check my brain at the door of the church. I weary of the fear and distain many of the churched have for those in the sciences. I weary of science’s fear of the church, built on the puny shoulders of Hitchens and Dawkins, who build arguments against straw men and state and restate the threadbare mantra that religion does bad things, when everyone know the greatest bloodletting of the 20th century were done by confirmed secularists and atheists! I weary of the lack of conversation between science and religion. I long for an openness and understanding, a dialogue based upon mutual respect and adherence to the notion, on the side of religion that all truth is God’s truth -- so science must be given freedom to explore and explore, and on the side of science that they (and their technological cousins) do not have all the answers -- so that religion can come to the table not with the how of things (say of origins) but perhaps the why...