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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Greg or e who wrote (19728)	3/24/2005 1:53:59 PM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

You can look up the definitions yourself. Suffice it to say that it is irrelevant to my assertion that the idea of a spiritual universe does not conflict with evolutionary theory in any way. Evolution conflicts with Christian dogma but it conflicts with almost all religious dogma. Macro evolution is simply the concept of biological forms of life changing in dramatic ways over time. Think of evolution as simply "change"--because that is what it is. It does not matter how life actually began (from an evolutionary standpoint). It could have been creation or panspermian...or strictly biochemical. Naturally, evolutionists have varying opinions on abiogenesis, as the whole purpose of scientific enquiry is to satisfy curiosity. But the origin of life is not the essential theme of evolution. Christian "creationism" is simply a self serving attempt to put square pegs into round holes. All religions are mythological "explanations" invented by people--so far as can be known at this point in time. It is too too obvious that the myths of ancient cultures all carry similar themes that are easily explained by biology and sociology. To consider any of these primitive diatribes as the inerrant word of a God is ludicrous in the extreme. Evolution is a scientific fact. The impossibility of "Noah's Ark" and that stupidity story is a scientific fact. But the obvious mythology involved in every religion studied by science (and there are thousands) does not make any ultimate statements about the origin of life--if, indeed, such a concept is meaningful at all. Science does not pretend to know anything ABSOLUTELY. Newtonian science was supplanted by Einsteinian and then quantum theory. What is "certain" today will be merely amusing to future generations. I understand that, but you do not. You think you know something. Nay...you think you know EVERYTHING! I am like Socrates. Nobody on this planet knows a damn thing...and I least of all.