Redeeming Darwin

Wow! This is the name of the class I'm taking at church that started this evening. Wonderful class.

My church runs a private school and has, apparently, some top-notch teachers. I had to agree with everything the class leaders said. These are not hard-liners against Darwin's 2 tenets: 1. Descent with modificaton 2. by means of natural selection. I was very glad of that. I have to agree with natural selection. Natural selection just is. We do selection, all the time. We choose which traits we want in our plants (seedless grapes, anyone?), our animals (Jack Russell? Thoroughbred?), and our children (spousal selection).

Descent with modification is a little tougher, although we can see how things are different, even within humans. We have to believe that, at least within species, there have been changes that bring us the wonderful variety of humans, and other creatures, that we see.

Believing in these two tenets may make one an evolutionist, but it doesn't make one a non-Christian. It also doesn't mean that one believes in all that evolution has become.

I may continue on with more ideas later. I hope I do. For now, I have a quiz and test to prepare for.

One more thing: Bravo, Ben Stein! He highlights one of the pillars of science, which will never be a theory/fact, but always the method and its freedom. If we can't ask questions, are we ceasing to do science? http://www.expelledthemovie.com/

Regi G