There's no case at all in which Darwins TOE conflicts with reasonable men's religious views, if there's offering praise of St Augustine it was obvious why then & now bumdum, since he held the view of an unfolding Creation, not the literal 6 day shazzam nonsense.
That everything was brought into existence in a single moment of creation, but is not static. Augustine used the metaphor of dormant seeds to develope into a tree. . God creates seeds, which will grow and develop at the right time. Augustine asks you to think of the created order as containing divinely embedded causalities that emerge or evolve at a later stage. This goes further into breaking down the classifications of various stages of creation, not to look like silly fools before those intellects that for centuries had already fathomed this unfolding & perfecting of life on this planet.
Your clarion call that "Darwinism" is a religion is true, in the sense it was proposed by one of the early influential deep thinking theologians. He attempted to provide a framework for the classification of the elements of the created world so that they might be better understood and appreciated.
Well that's exactly what we are doing today, in appreciating this in new marvelous ways, we go where the truth leads us, as material creatures in the continuum of time & space, its only natural we study ourselves this evolutionary context. Little steps at a time, thats just the nature of our emerging material integration & extension of our senses in new modern tools, computational analysis & pattern recognition.
Its still is and always will be a hierarchy of needs, food, shelter, clothing, you know--->material things. |
