What do you think this means in terms of funding, job opportunities,
environmental education, research and policy, etc.? What major changes (if
any) do you think might occur over the next few years that will affect our
personal and professional lives as ecologists? Should we be excited?
Kind
Although I agree that evolutionary theory doesn't (technically) threaten the
notion of God, it does provide evidence that most (if not all) creation
myths are just plain wrong. And other scientific disciplines have provided
evidence that many of the other stories written in various sacred texts
Carissa,
Based on the particular kinds of questions you ask, it's fairly obvious to
me that you've been reading lots of intelligent design propaganda (I can
especially see the influences of Behe and Dembski in your questions).
As someone who has been extremely interested and active in
As Jeff Stratford just pointed out to me, Barbara Forrest is a historian
interested in evolutionary theory and its history (i.e., she is not an
evolutionary biologist).
Minor point, but I'm guessing the distinction is somewhat important to
Barbara so I figured I owed it to her to point out my
I'm not convinced that I understand some of what you have to say here, however:
The most basic tenet of most religions is that there is a God of one form or
another. Most go on to claim that this God interacts (or interacted) either
directly or indirectly with humans and/or our world. None of
Markael Luterra stated:
An open-minded scientific community must not support either natural or
supernatural explanations for these phenomena, as there is currently
insufficient evidence for either.
Although this sounds reasonable on the surface, I'm not convinced that I
agree with this statement
