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

[Jonathan Hall <jonhall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I consider myself an "Old-Earth Creationist."  IOW, I believe the world is
some 17-odd billion years old, formed at the instant of the Big Bang, and
that life appeard on Earth some 4 billion years ago... that the dinosaurs
died out some 60 million years ago, and that humanity is some 10,000-years
old.

Do I believe in "evolution?"  On the most basic level, yes--AIDS mutates. 
Big deal.  Evolution from ameoba to human?  In the same sense that the
latest Itanium CPU evolved from an Intel 4004, or even a slide-rule or
abacus sure.  There are resemblencese all down the line, but one species (or
CPU class) did not magically and by chance turn into another.  Intelligence
is required every step of the way.

That's my 2 cents :)

Now I can go to sleep

-- Jonathan


On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 02:56:08AM -0500, Burt Humburg wrote:
> 
> >>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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