God/Truth/Darwin/etc
Posted By matt on September 25, 2004
(Liz is watching this show called Joan of Arcadia. In case people aren't aware, it's a program about this teenager to whom God appears and guides her life. Not bad. Better than seventh heaven. Anyway, it got me thinking about things religious.)
First come the Christ fish.
Then come the Darwin fish.
Now, my father has a Truth fish eating a Darwin fish.
What's the big deal?
Why is it so difficult for scientific people to accept the possibility that electrochemical/biological/etc. reactions are guided by some type of higher power? After all, we do it each time we bake bread.
On the flip side, why is it so difficult for religious people to accept that things may not just get miracled into existence, but rather that they are created through a process. It's like the people who go to the supermarket and buy meat (or bread) and assume that it just appears there, not that it actually came from somewhere.
And while we're at it, why can't people put Biblical edicts into historical perspective? After all, most of the Old Testament directives need to be viewed through the eyes of a nomadic, persecuted people. You don't want sex out of wedlock, birth control, etc., because you need to keep the population up. Same thing with homosexuality (and perhaps why it only addresses male homosexuality).
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