Observations on EVOLUTION SUNDAY #5

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Observations on EVOLUTION SUNDAY #5

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2007

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EVOLUTION SUNDAY: A Response

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Rev Ian Brown

A contribution from another 'suggested resource' for Evolution Sunday 2007:

This one is from Linda Eaves, Priest in Residence at St. Thomas Episcopal Church, Richmond, VA.

It is yet one of thw worst examples of the unscriptural nonsense being circulated by dark minds, unilluminated by God and unregenerated by grace!

Linda Eaves declares:

"Not long ago, the Board of Education in Cobb County, Georgia decided to fix a problem with the biology textbook. They had little stickers printed to go inside the front cover of every biology textbook in the county. It said something like “Evolution is only a theory”. The Board insisted on equal classroom time for evolution and creationism.

Last week, I suggested to the Rector that we should have little stickers printed to go inside all our prayer books in the pews with the words “God is only a theory” and give equal pulpit time to Jesus and Darwin.

This story from the cultural backwoods reminds me that what is at stake today is not simply about politics or even religion. These are just a symptom. The real issue is “truth”. What is “truth” and how do we know it? The real difference between Eaves and the Board of Education is not that I believe evolution is a fact – that is bad science. The real problem is that I believe God is only a theory. By saying so, I believe I am being more faithful to my humanity in a very big universe than the board of education. Furthermore, I believe I am being more faithful to the truth about Jesus.

... Evolution is only a theory. So is God – only a theory. There is no certainty. Xenophanes was right. There are only guesses to guide us. But that is the way it is. Our faith is not that God has beamed us up to a higher plane of knowing. There is no higher plane of knowing. Our faith is a fragile hope that God lives with us in the reality of our darkness, in our search for truth, in the bold guesses we try to live by. It’s all only a theory. The question is whether it leads anywhere."

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