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Since Hosta-open is a little quiet today I though I might try to get a
debate going between Evolutionist and Creationist.........

Or maybe a comment from someone who's a little of both.

Dan Nelson
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And God Said, Let There Be Light in Kansas

By Gene Weingarten
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, August 14, 1999; Page C01

                                    MEMO

To:  The members of the Kansas Board of Education
From:   God
Re:  Your decision to eliminate the teaching of evolution as science.

Thank you for your support. Much obliged.

Now, go forth and multiply. Beget many children. And yea, your children
shall beget children. And their children shall beget children, and their
children's children after them. And in time the genes that have made you
such pinheads will be eliminated through natural selection. Because that
is how it works.

Listen, I love all my creatures equally, and gave each his own special
qualities to help him on Earth. The horse I gave great strength. The
antelope I gave great grace and speed. The dung beetle I gave great
stupidity, so he doesn't realize he is a dung beetle. Man I gave a
brain.

Use it, okay?

I admit I am not perfect. I've made errors. (cellulite--what was I
thinking?) But do you Kansans seriously believe that I dropped
half-a-billion-year-old trilobite skeletons all over my great green
Earth by mistake? What, I had a few lying around from some previous
creation in the Andromeda galaxy, and they fell through a hole in my
pocket?

You were supposed to find them. And once you found them, you were
supposed to draw the appropriate, intelligent conclusions. That's what I
made you for. To think.

The folks who wrote the Bible were smart and good people. Mostly, they
got it right. But there were glitches. Imprecisions. For one thing, they
said that Adam and Eve begat Cain and Abel, and then Cain begat Enoch.

How was that supposed to have happened?

They left out Tiffany entirely!

Well, they also were a little off on certain elements of timing and
sequence. So what?

You guys were supposed to figure it all out for yourselves, anyway. When
you stumble over the truth, you are not supposed to pick yourself up,
dust yourself off and proceed on as though nothing had happened. If you
find a dinosaur's toe, you're not supposed to look for reasons to call
it a croissant. You're not big, drooling idiots. For that, I made dogs.

Why do you think there are no fossilized human toes dating from a
hundred million years ago? Think about it.

It's okay if you think. In fact, I prefer it. That's why I like Charlie
Darwin. He was always a thinker. Still is. He and I chat frequently.

I know a lot of people figure that if man evolved from other organisms,
it means I don't exist. I have to admit this is a reasonable assumption
and a valid line of thought. I am in favor of thought. I encourage you
to pursue this concept with an open mind, and see where it leads you.

That's all I have to say right now, except that I'm really cheesed off
at laugh tracks on sitcoms, and the NRA, and people who make simple
declarative sentences sound like questions?

Oh, wait. There's one more thing.

Did you read in the newspapers yesterday how scientists in Australia dug
up some rocks and found fossilized remains of life dating back further
than ever before? Primitive, multicelled animals on Earth nearly 3
billion years ago, when the planet was nothing but roiling muck and ice
and fire. And inside those cells was . . . DNA. Incredibly complex
strands of chemicals, laced together in a scheme so sophisticated no one
yet understands exactly how it works.

I wonder who could have thought of something like that, back then.

Just something to gnaw on.

© Copyright 1999 The Washington Post Company




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