Life is awesome
Great article by Peter Wood over at National Review. He really nails home the point that the most profound issues posed by evolution - specifically those regarding the emergence of humanity - cannot, and will never be, answered completely by science. "Who are we" and "where did we come from" are without a doubt questions for philosophers and theologians, and should be left primarily to them. Ultimately, any comprehensive answers will address the dignity (or possibly lack lackthereof) of the human person, which is essentially the basis of our civilized existence.
His argument is a little more geared specifically toward addressing the (idiotic) Evolution/Creationsism debate, but in a short amount of space he manages to make you stop and think more than a few times. Highly recommended reading.
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If there's anything SciFi has taught me its that a far more advanced race started life on Earth (a la Star Trek and Stargate SG1). But seriously, I see the flaw in the "randomness" arguement. Even now mathmeticians and scientists are finding order in randomness through chaos theory and relativistic theory studies. As for the Creationism stuff, it is my opinion that people take some of the scripture too seriously and should treat it more metaphorically (an opinion that always seems to open a can of worms). I like the happy medium idea of intelligent design. It doesn't step on Creationist toes and it leaves the current evolution studies alone. I mean, can't we all just get along?
yeah.......what he said.
look at all the pretty letters
I agree with you a thousand and a half percent about reading Scripture metaphorically.
Of course, most of it probably still shouild be read literally. But certain stories, like the Creation or the Great Flood - stories that are found in lots of ancient cultures, not just Semitic - are so obviously allegorical in nature that it takes an extreme perversion of the notion of Sola Scriptura to read them any other way. (To rain on the Fundamentalist's parade.)
Rock on, honorable ones.
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