I begin by quoting from Charles Darwin”s “Origin of the Species”: “There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.”
It is fascinating that this paragraph can be seen by some as “racist, sexist, improvable, and dangerous … and sets up a hierarchy of humans … and should be challenged in a free society and rejected by Bible believers.” So I looked at the Bible for its take on this subject and found: 1 Corinthians 14:34-36: “Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak … for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.” They also need to submit to their husbands. Which quote sounds most dangerous and improvable? How is it that “… you ladies … have been misinformed about the oppression of Biblical Christianity?”
Our founding fathers may or may not have been “Christians” when they wrote the Constitution, but I don”t see how Charles Darwin is destroying a generation”s faith in anything higher than man in his quote and I don”t see how this opens the door for the freedoms in the constitution to be altered or restrained.
The reality is that science does not give a whit about religion or the stories in the Bible. All the people who believe in Biblical Christianity can continue to believe anything they wish as long as they hurt no one. Science will go about its business making more efficient airplanes, refrigerators, ovens and stoves, better lights, better cars etc. All of these items are not mentioned in the Bible and they cannot all be evil because they are not from the Bible.
We live in a modern world where many of us do not turn to superannuated books to run our lives and determine our thoughts. So please, don”t make science out to be a boogie-man. I have read the Bible but have you read the Origin of the Species? There are thousands of other “good” books out there and reading more science books will go a long way to producing a more rounded individual.
Greg Blinn, Kelseyville
