Adam,I just read about this project and signed my name to the clergy letter project. They now have over 10,000 clergy signatures on a letter saying:
We the undersigned, Christian clergy from many different traditions, believe that the timeless truths of the Bible and the discoveries of modern science may comfortably coexist. We believe that the theory of evolution is a foundational scientific truth, one that has stood up to rigorous scrutiny and upon which much of human knowledge and achievement rests. To reject this truth or to treat it as “one theory among others” is to deliberately embrace scientific ignorance and transmit such ignorance to our children. We believe that among God’s good gifts are human minds capable of critical thought and that the failure to fully employ this gift is a rejection of the will of our Creator. To argue that God’s loving plan of salvation for humanity precludes the full employment of the God-given faculty of reason is to attempt to limit God, an act of hubris. We urge school board members to preserve the integrity of the science curriculum by affirming the teaching of the theory of evolution as a core component of human knowledge. We ask that science remain science and that religion remain religion, two very different, but complementary, forms of truth.
Here's What I (Adam Wright) Think:
That those that proclaim creationism over what science has taught us and can continue to teach us are like the blind leading the naked. There's nothing wrong with having a strong faith but it improper for folks to condemn those of us that believe in and understand evolution. It is also wrong for school boards to try and make creationism school curriculum. Creationism isn't a science. And anyone trying to pass it off as anything other than it being based in religion is lying.
AJ
PS-here's a link you'll enjoy
1 comment:
Bravo and well said. I draw confort in statements like this from Christians such as yourself. I am not a Christian and this whole "creation science" issue really scares me.
If this becomes the dominant political stance in this country we are all in for a long rough ride through the new Dark Ages.
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