Let me introduce myself. I'm a 21 year old 'young man' studying a 5 year carreer in computer engineering. While biology is not precisely my favorite subject, I've come to believe in certain principles that for the first time in my life, have been subject to a mass debate (a more than century old debate).
I know the entire site is dedicated to debating creationism versus evolution, but I had no idea, whatsoever, that this comparison between apples and oranges was still as backwards as it was 100 years ago.
It's too hard for me to actually believe that over 57% of the population in the United States (and just there apparently), believes so naively that God just literally created the world in 7 days.
"literally"
Doesn't that seem incredibly odd to anyone?
I'm a roman catholic living in an ultra catholic country (Mexico), but even the most innocent primary school student would know the difference between a nice fairytale-like analogy to the beginning of the universe and an actual effort to explain, logically and objectively the true creation of the universe.
I accept that Creationism is but a childs interpretation of all the theories we have yet to discover about how God, from a superatom to the first homo sapien sapien, created everything.
Face it, as a civilization of 'rational' human beings, we can and should only accept our own scientific observations as 'objective education' in the classroom.
On what sane grounds does the board of education in iowa or idaho, not educate children in the latest advances of the only universally acceptable ideas of our existance? Creationism is an idea for experienced philosopher and theologists to interpret (I've never seen a more cryptic passage in all the bible), but outside of that, it's nothing more than a bedtime story, an interesting cosmological myth for the enthusiast. The layman is not ready to actually comprehend the implications of comparing creationism with evolution, because he lacks the educated and sought after criteria of an educated man.
In my mind this debate is silly. Long before our dear pope said so, to me Evolution, the Physical-Chemical Theory and the Big Bang were already a form of dogma to me. So...
Can we play with our own genetic tapestry in the meantime? I don't see why not.
Can we equally, in the same manner, rationalize nature's quarks?
Oh yes, most definitely
Evolution is, currently, the only way to go. If you've got a better, more complex and sophisticated, yet precise idea of how we came about, then by all means debate evolution. But if you give me a fairly vague and cryptic explanation, as the genesis states, without explaining how you 'scientifically' correlate verse to fact, then the current popular interpretation of creationism is not only childish and immature, but also innapropriate.
And if this appears to be somewhat of a hostile interrogatory then you'll have to excuse both my frustration and disappointment with a group of people (creationists) who completely lack some form of rational, logical and convincing statements to their perspective.
[This message has been edited by Dream Master, 03-05-2002]
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