[aclug-L] Re: Linux and Creationism...

["Burt Humburg" <bhumburg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>Yeah, it did offend my sensibilities, but probably not in the way most
would expect.  If people would ask, yes, I consider myself a Christian and
attend my church regularly and am becoming more active in it.

You aren't alone. I'm a Christian and an "evolutionist."

In any case, if that inflamed you, wait till you hear about "Intelligent
Design" creationism, the latest incarnation of William Paley's "Argument
from Design." In a nutshell, if you can't understand it, then it is not
capable of being understood and is therefore something that only God could
have done. Of course, once something has such a designation, then the "holy"
thing to do would be to stop research on it; otherwise, you are taking away
from God.

Here's the proponents' main website:

http://www.discovery.org

Here's where people like me, who disagree with them, duke it out:

http://www.arn.org/cgi-bin/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi

Here's a few of my favorite quotes on the matter:

"I take nothing away from God. All things that are in the world were made by
God, except evil. But he made other things through the operation of nature
which is the instrument of Divine creation." -- William of Conches

"The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits
suicide." -- Emerson

"The science that is afraid of religion abandons its claim to detachment and
sows the seed of its own destruction." -- Sherwin Nuland in _The Mysteries
Within_

"If modern creationists can't find God in a rainbow, what makes them think
that they will find him in a cell? You find God in the world you know, not
the world that you don't." -- Anonymous

BCH


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