So, regarding post 20, Jake, explicitly what do you think is “goofy” about evolution, and why?

Anyway, I can certainly see evolution as a viable occurring thing. Does that mean I think it’s what began everything? Nope. I don’t understand why people can’t see that both can be true.

God could have created the Earth, allowing for things such as evolution and natural selection. Just because He created it all, doesn’t necessarily mean He’s sitting there as if playing chess moving people around. Humans evolve, the Earth evolves, and He can sit back and enjoy those who believe in Him and feel bad for those who don’t.

I mean, come on, He’s GOD! He can do whatever He wants!

‘UncleMidriff Says:

However, it might comfort you somewhat to know that the majority of the biology professors at the Southern Baptist university from which I graduated were evolutionists.’

Huh? Not all of them? Now that’s scary.”

What part of “Southern Baptist university” don’t you understand? ;-)

I wasn’t any sort of biology major, so I can’t say for sure how many of the professors were evolutionist and how many weren’t. My older brother was a biology professor, though, and he lead me to believe that most of them were evolutionists. There was one biology class that non-biology majors like me had to take in the name of a well-rounded education, and the professor who taught the section I was in was very much in love with Intelligent Design. However, before you have an aneurysm, that professor was not regarded highly by most of the students/other faculty members that I talked to.

But the thing is, “proven facts” are not necessarily true. You only need one affirmative test to call a hypothesis a “proven fact.” A theory is, to quote from Wikipedia, “a logically self-consistent model or framework for describing the behavior of a related set of natural or social phenomena. It originates from and/or is supported by experimental evidence (see scientific method).”

However, you’re free to believe whatever you wish (as long as you don’t force it on kids in the name of “Teaching the Controversy”).

Some of my friends do go to “Vacation Bible School” (how is that a vacation?) and “Happening” (sounds like a bunch of hippy hoo-haw). Happening is supposedly about learning to love Jesus, but I think there’s a whole lot more sex going on than my friends will admit to. C’mon, a bunch of horny teens off at camp? If there’s no poking, I bet there’s stroking. Or maybe blow…king.

As a Jew, I’m not allowed to go to Happening. I offered to sell my soul to Jesus if I could go. My friends still haven’t gotten back to me.

However, it might comfort you somewhat to know that the majority of the biology professors at the Southern Baptist university from which I graduated were evolutionists.”

Huh? Not all of them? Now that’s scary.

Not only are they not particularly diverse, most of the time they’re attractive females. At least, for their age. I mean, if I had believed that Christian summer camp was full of hot chicks when I was an adolescent I might have given it a shot. Hormones > ideals, especially at that age.