Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 14:59:07 -0600
From: jholden-AT-ies.net (Holden, John)
Subject: re:Darwin and God


>> Most christians also don't know that for about a thousand years the church,
>> a cardinal to be exact, figured mathematically the age of the earth from
>> the bible. It was 2,000 some odd years a day that I don't remember at 9a.m.
>> in the morning.
>
>Uh, John, they didn't know it because IT'S WRONG. It wasn't "for a
>thousand years," it was for a few hundred years at best since they guy
>who figured it out was a near contemporary of Darwin.
>
>John, and many people like him, like to paint all christians -- indeed,
>all people who believe in _anything_ not scientifically measured -- in
>the same, overbroad brush. It's elitist, and it pisses me off, but I
>usually just let it pass. I decided not to today.
>---------------------------------
I'm a very spiritual person, just not a christian. I was one for about 9
years, perfect faith and all. I don't believe that evolution is a random
process, that god is dead. There has to be some creative force in the
universe that moves from the simple to the more complex. It's in us as well
as the history of the earth, but I really don't think it's the
Judeo/Christian god, that god is also dead. You don't have to be an atheist
or a scientist, just rational.
Holden