Guest guest Posted February 20, 2005 Report Share Posted February 20, 2005 freyjartist wrote: > One beauty of Darwinism is the intellectual freedom it allows. As the > arch-evolutionist Richard Dawkins has observed, ''Darwin made it possible to be an > intellectually fulfilled atheist.'' But Darwinism permits you to be an > intellectually fulfilled theist, too. That is why Pope John Paul II was comfortable > declaring that evolution has been ''proven true'' and that ''truth cannot > contradict truth.'' If God created the universe wholesale rather than retail -- > endowing it from the start with an evolutionary algorithm that progressively > teased complexity out of chaos -- then imperfections in nature would be a > necessary part of a beautiful process. > Of course proponents of intelligent design are careful not to use the G-word, > because, as they claim, theirs is not a religiously based theory. So biology > students can be forgiven for wondering whether the mysterious designer > they're told about might not be the biblical God after all, but rather some very > advanced yet mischievous or blundering intelligence -- extraterrestrial > scientists, say. The important thing, as the Pennsylvania school administrator > reminded them, is ''to keep an open mind.'' Can anyone disprove that we are not simply one species of many in a solar system terrarium tended by extraterrestials and that we have to deal with them first before we can get to anything else? :-) Lewis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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