LJ-SEC: (ORIGINALLY POSTED BY velvetpage)

http://www.christianpost.com/article/20061118/23538.htm

The good side: the book and movie make a case for intelligent design but not for a seven-day creation. That's progress.

What I don't understand is why they feel the need to debate this at all. At the end of the day, science can put forth evidence and suggest methods by which that evidence could have come about, but it can't prove conclusively how the universe began. There is always an element of faith there, either that it all came about by chance or that it didn't. Either way, the progress since it came about is fairly straightforward: evolution happens, whether God put it in place or not, and it doesn't look like He meddles in it overmuch. Why not just proclaim the wonder of God's creation, which is so much vaster and more varied than anyone ever thought, and leave it at that? The people who want to believe in pure chance will do so. The people who want to believe in a higher power are free to do that, too. And I've just summed up the only part of this whole argument that ever needs to make it into a high school classroom.