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<blockquote data-quote="Rudy" data-source="post: 7666225" data-attributes="member: 568035">? //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gifThis is actually one of the best threads I&#039;ve seen anywhere on this topic. Too much superfluous antagonisms to follow the meat, but I&#039;ve learned something from it.To fully disclose, I don&#039;t believe it&#039;s possible for any written text to be infallible let alone a direct connection to the supernatural. Believing otherwise is fundamentalism and I don&#039;t distinguish between the Taliban and more familiar seeming expressions.I&#039;ve been convinced for some time that attempts to equate evolution and the Biblical creation story, science and religion are a cynical attempt by those with a financial stake in establishing the equivalency. Unfortunately those with a predilection toward an us and them view of life have accepted it as a faith calling.I&#039;ve seen something new in this thread: the idea that evolution was somehow directed toward &quot;positive&quot; change, as if evolution was an entity. This suggests a deeper division than I&#039;ve understood before. I don&#039;t think anybody has the right to disparage those who believe the Jewish creation story is literal fact but I don&#039;t think it has any place in a science class or any place in a public school other than in a history or social studies class. This idea of &quot;directed evolution&quot; makes me think those fighting against observable realities really think it is an issue of competing religions, as clumsily as they may express the view.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Rudy, post: 7666225, member: 568035"] ? [IMG]//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif[/IMG] This is actually one of the best threads I've seen anywhere on this topic. Too much superfluous antagonisms to follow the meat, but I've learned something from it. To fully disclose, I don't believe it's possible for any written text to be infallible let alone a direct connection to the supernatural. Believing otherwise is fundamentalism and I don't distinguish between the Taliban and more familiar seeming expressions. I've been convinced for some time that attempts to equate evolution and the Biblical creation story, science and religion are a cynical attempt by those with a financial stake in establishing the equivalency. Unfortunately those with a predilection toward an us and them view of life have accepted it as a faith calling. I've seen something new in this thread: the idea that evolution was somehow directed toward "positive" change, as if evolution was an entity. This suggests a deeper division than I've understood before. I don't think anybody has the right to disparage those who believe the Jewish creation story is literal fact but I don't think it has any place in a science class or any place in a public school other than in a history or social studies class. This idea of "directed evolution" makes me think those fighting against observable realities really think it is an issue of competing religions, as clumsily as they may express the view. [/QUOTE]

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