I'm trying to get over my horror that there are three men running for president who don't believe in evolution. If I have just offended you, please keep reading. Please. Think of it as your Christian duty.
Anyway, I didn't even know that there were seemingly normal people who didn't believe in evolution until I moved to Kansas City. When I was twenty-seven. After eight years in the midwest, I can say that it's more common than anyone on the east coast would like to believe. In fact, Hot Guy's ex-fiancee was one of such people (don't judge him too harshly, he was young). And when he questioned her about all the science behind evolution and the age of the earth and other contradictions to her literal faith, she told him that all the evidence was put on earth by God to test her faith.
Personally, I find that science illuminates my faith. My God is cheering all of us on as we figure all of this stuff out. But I digress.
Okay, let's just say that God is out to test one's faith. Does S/He really need to do this with fossils and DNA? Really? Let's look at our world: serial killers, the Holocaust, the Killing Fields in Cambodia, Darfur, slavery, pedophilia, cancer, AIDS, government corruption, American Idol. Isn't that enough of a test? To believe in goodness in the face of such evil? Do we really need to ignore evolutionary science to prove our faith?
PS. The Bible is not literal, people.
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Geography shouldn't have such an impact, but it does. I know more people that go to church here (in NJ) than I did in KS, but evolution is not even a question here.
Youg GO GRRL! WHen the conptuer teacher at my school complained that she shouldn't have to teach curriculum against her belief system, to my second grade students, I thought she was kidding. Lo-and -behold, she was serious. Apparently, Darwim and most degrees in anthropology wrong wrong in her book, because our world was only 10,000 years old, and dinosaurs (the unit in which I was teaching) were a testament to her faith that we must trust in god above all others, and the dinosaur fossils are a testament to the said, ahem, faith. Cleanliness, not blindess, led to goddess"ness". (;
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