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To: Grainne who wrote (105379)	5/28/2005 6:34:21 PM
From: J. C. Dithers	Respond to of 108807

If you were asking me a question, the answer is that I don't have a theory, either. The universe certainly WAS created, unless it was there forever, which is a useless concept inasmuch as "forever"" is incomprehensible to the human mind. I remain open-minded to all proffered theories or explanations, including supernatural ones. Faith gives me comfort, and therefore I am comforted by the beliefs of my religion in this matter. If I have a problem, it is the arrogance of those people who dismiss supernatural explanations of our very existence as so much mumbo-jumbo, or recidivism to primitive superstitions. It would be a different matter if these people, including scientists, had any better explanation to offer. They simply do not. It is not helpful to say, "We just don't know." There is nothing more important to our existence and mortality then to know the why and how of it. Nothing. In the case of school instruction, I suspect that evolution is being fed into young minds as if it IS an explanation of how we came to be -- an explanation that negates the need for religious or supernatural explanations. But evolution is only an on-going process, wherein the far more important question is how, when, and why evolution began. The ID proponents do not dispute evolution, which is observable, but wish to proffer an possible explanation of its origin. Given that science has no alternative explanation, it seems reasonable to me that the schools make learners aware of that. What I don't see is why the scientific establishment is so scornful of the SUPERnatural, when they are unable to offer a clue, let alone theory, from the NATURAL. Look, we ARE HERE. How come? Shouldn't we be trying to deal with that?