I found Stacey”s arguments in the 2014 December 3 Record-Bee to be rather disingenuous. The founding document of our country is the US Constitution and has no references to God. She may be referring to the Declaration of Independence which does mention ”the Creator.” However, this one severed our relationship to England and left all the states in North America independent. There was so much friction between these states that the founding fathers decided a federal government was needed to control interstate relations to make them uniform. And our freedoms? They come from the amendments attached to the end of the Constitution. No mention of God in them either. And they did come from our founding fathers, who were wise enough to know that God should not be involved in the laws made by elected officials.
Then there is the comments about Darwin and the unchallenged teaching of evolution. I recall someone quoting Darwin out of context, saying he didn”t think that the human eye could have resulted thru the process of evolution. This, of course, was not a challenge. And I have seen many other comments and treatises saying that evolution is fantasy and that creation is the only reality. Those were not challenges either.
Of course, Darwin did believe that women did not have a reason to evolve as quickly as men so were necessarily lower on the ladder. The same for other races as well. The railroad barons used ”survival of the fittest” to justify their oppression of their workers and each others. These notions have been dropped decades ago and are no longer thought of as scientifically valid, as there was no science involved when first thought of. Does this make the theory invalid as well? Stacey is right that horrible things have been done in the name of religion. The Crusades, the Spanish Inquisition and witch burning to name a few. But would she say this makes religion invalid?
Kevin Bracken, Kelseyville
