Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Can you say 'Christian Science' without smirking?

After watching another person in a position of power proudly show off their unfaltering ignorance, I got a little more depressed. This has been happening more often with this waning generation of religiously-raised baby-boomers, trying to get the message across before they all retire and move to various warmer climes. A few months ago a video surfaced of Texas' Board of Education Chairman vehemently dissuading the teaching of evolution to Texas' precious children. He even went as far as to attack (in the nicest way possible) the very 'experts' who support the verifiable and heavily researched theory. Damn experts, think they know everything.
I see the root of the problem as science in general, which time and again has gone against Christina beliefs in God and the Bible. Evolution is just one of several thorns in the side of Biblical 'truth.' Science, archeology and a thorough study of history have all cast heaps of doubt on many things in the Bible, including the very existence of Jesus, not to mention God. No one likes it when their erroneously held beliefs get smashed to bits by facts and logic, and I'm no exception.
But the theory of evolution has been around a while, right? Shouldn't Christians have gotten over it by now and accepted what all other rational beings have come to understand? I don't think it's going to be easy. Because if the earth really wasn't created in six days, and the earth wasn't covered in water, what else could be wrong in the Bible? Scary thought for a True Believer. So the hatred will continue, but the idea of Christian Science will never hold water. There is no way to prove the earth is six-thousand years old, especially given the fact that the very uranium that Senator Allen wants to be mined has a half-life of 4.46 billion years. Ironic, isn't it? I love science.

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