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Saturday, February 18, 2006

It should read, "I Don't Believe God."

Who needs "Americans for the Separation of Church and State" when we have these people. One of the saddest stories of late is one about a letter called The Clergy Letter Project. The creators of this letter say they have 10,000 signatures from clergy who support evolution as defined by science. One line of the letter says that of all Christians, "the overwhelming majority do not read the Bible literally, as they would a science textbook."

I strongly beg to differ. In fact, this intelligently-created being reads the books in exact juxtaposition to what their letter says, and there is stronger "scientific theorem" to back that. Just how many scientists have be proven wrong when they said a Biblical city never existed and some archeologist finds traces it does? Think carbon-dating is foul-proof? Think again. Let me give you a new lightbulb joke: How many Evolution scientists does it take to change a lightbulb? Hmmm... none, they believe one will evolve to take the last one's place!

Let me get in one point I do believe... I do believe in the "little e" evolution. Things do change, evolve, to adapt to an environment. Yet, give me one missing-link FACT of the "big E" evolution. There are none. Repeat this after me, "Order never, ever will, it can't come out of, chaos." Now, let me whisper something to you... we are devolving. When God made it all, He pronounced that it was good. It was whole. It was perfect. The order God created started to unwind after sin was brought into our universe.

A few more choice words from the "clergy:" "We believe that the theory of evolution is a foundational scientific truth, one that has stood up to rigorous scrutiny and upon which much of human knowledge and achievement rests. To reject this truth... is to deliberately embrace scientific ignorance and transmit such ignorance to our children."
...and...
"We ask that science remain science and that religion remain religion, two very different, but complementary, forms of truth." They can say this because they just called Creation, Adam and Eve, and Noah and the Ark, stories. Stories... the only way humans could understand God.

The New York Times reports on a few of the churches who celebrated the letter with sermons, calling last Sunday "Evolution Sunday." Yet, it said some churches would not be doing sermons on this topic (I wonder why... fewer paritioners next week, perhaps?). In their article, the two churches participating were pretty small in numbers.

Rev. Patricia Templeton was one to sermonize evolution at St. Dunstan's Episcopal Church in Atlanta. A parishoner of hers compared antibiotics with evolution, describing how viruses can mutate to survive what should kill them. Thus, this man ends up equating the Theory of Evolution with the "little e" evolution.

These "clergy" are confusing real science and theories. Telling people that they can't believe in Creation and real science is unGodly. Telling people that the "big E" Evolution is fact and the Bible is just a beautiful story is heresy. Again, a "big bang" begats chaos, not order. My new theory is that these 10,000 (or so) "clergy" who signed this letter need to find a new order of business, a new profession. They are a shame to God and to any intelligent creation.

Here is a link to the letter itself.
Link to New York Times article.

Agape Press article on this letter.

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