God may be a blind watchmaker, but Intelligent Design is still dumb.
One has faith in what one does not know, cannot prove, cannot demonstrate. Indeed, it is widely held that the true strength of faith is that it is a conviction that is held in the absence of proof or evidence.
To use faith as an instrument for forming policy in a secular government is maddness.
Creationism flys in the face of demonstratable facts regarding the nature of creation. Creationism is a denial of the truth of the creation. To deny the creation is tanamount to denial of the creator, though I doubt the creationists see it in that light. I am angered by creationism for various reasons, but one of these is that it seems to me that denying certain immutable laws of reality in favor of a certain interpretation of the bible is like worshipping a false idol. It is invention, it is innovation, it is choosing a human voice over the physical laws that govern and bind reality. It makes me very frustrated.
One has faith in what one does not know, cannot prove, cannot demonstrate. Indeed, it is widely held that the true strength of faith is that it is a conviction that is held in the absence of proof or evidence.
To use faith as an instrument for forming policy in a secular government is maddness.
Creationism flys in the face of demonstratable facts regarding the nature of creation. Creationism is a denial of the truth of the creation. To deny the creation is tanamount to denial of the creator, though I doubt the creationists see it in that light. I am angered by creationism for various reasons, but one of these is that it seems to me that denying certain immutable laws of reality in favor of a certain interpretation of the bible is like worshipping a false idol. It is invention, it is innovation, it is choosing a human voice over the physical laws that govern and bind reality. It makes me very frustrated.
To argue the difference creationism and evolution with an analogy like the chicken and the egg is missing the point completely. It is not how the process evolved it is how it started in the first place, i.e. where the first cell came from.
Besides that to say man is a product of evolution still requires The Missing Link, which has yet to happpen. So doesn't the theory of evolution therein require a bit faith as well?
Although I wholeheartedly believe in the separation of church and state. To rule by the laws of something that just as many people disagree with, and just as passionately, as people agree with is a recipe for anarchy.