There are plenty of individuals in the world -- people of deep faith, regular churchgoers, etc. -- who see no conflict between faith and science. It requires significantly less imagination, if you are of both a scientific and a religious bent, to imagine the universe being set into motion through a single, unimaginably powerful spark of existence -- a singularity of time and space that gave birth to all that followed -- than it is to imagine the earth, heavens, animals, plants, elements, galaxies, fossil records, tectonic processes, quantum effects, etc., etc., etc., each being laid out one-by-one like props on a television set, all waiting to be set into motion at once when an unseen director cries action on the two poor unknowing saps gorging themselves at the buffet table. Science, as it turns out, requires that you believe in a much more powerful and ingenious God than the God of fundamentalist Topeka, Kansas.

I like the fact that the fundies want to redefine the meaning of the word "science".

Why stop there? Math are way to hard, so they shud be redefinated to. And ther r way to many countrys and states, so geografy shuld be more simpler. Only skware states wil be covered in skool.
- mark 5-07-2005 9:35 pm

It's all in the Bible, man: quadratic equations, peptide chains, the Dewey decimal system, how to Pasteurize milk, simply amazing stuff the Lord has made available all in one place.
- tom moody 5-07-2005 10:48 pm