"Admitting the fact of evolution means losing "hand," in the words of George Costanza, losing control of thought.
If evolution is conceded, interpretation of faith would have to be adjusted to fit the facts and the facts are getting so far out there that faith can't really adjust much more.
A few years ago I think, the Catholic Church seemed to be on the verge of conceding life or evidence of it might be found on Mars.
It is concievable in your lifetime that evidence of planets similar to earth, potentially life bearing, might be found.
Where does a document or collection of documents written 2000 years ago on Earth fit into that?
I'm not a skeptic about evolution. I'm a skeptic about the Bible.
Cowperson"
Good post.
Can't one still concede the facts of evolution as we know them, without admitting the fact of evolution, and still have faith? I have to believe there are more than a few practicing scientists out there who believe in some form of spirituality.
As many have pointed out, correctly, on this board, there is a limit to how much science can reveal. Science can essentially falsify incorrect theories, but it can never prove a universal law.
In my mind, that reality leaves plenty of room for faith exist.
After all, faith is just that, faith - it requires no scientific or insitutionalized religious justification to exist.
The Catholic Church's response is not really a matter of faith, it's more a matter of responding to competitive pressures in order to survive. These same forces will see the Catholic Church open the priesthood to women in the not to distant future.
But that is a much different issue from the efforts of many to have creationism taught in schools as a viable scientific alternative to evolutionary theory.
Don't get me wrong, I too am a skeptic of the Bible. And a skeptic of the NHL. And a skeptic of the NHLPA. I have NO FAITH in those two organizations. :P
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