Flying Crane
Sr. Grandmaster
KOROHO said:If you want to put your faith in men and accept evolution, that is your choice. I don't have a problem with it at all. The problem is with the arrogance and self-righteousness of people who come here and claim that they are smarter and better than others because they choose to place thier faith in an un-supportable theory rather than in God.
There is nothing wrong with believing in God at the same time as believing in science and evolution. You can accept that evolution is true, and that God created the universe and the world and uses evolution as his mechanism for change. It even makes sense, that God would use a mechanism that humans could observe and measure and understand.
But if you do believe in God, this is a matter of faith. God's existence cannot be observed, measured, proven or disproven.
But evolution, as a mechanism that creates change in the world, can be. That is science, and science is different from faith. Science seeks to observe and measure and understand the world around us. That is what it is for.
Faith is used to try and understand that which cannot (at least yet) be described by science. But faith, the belief in God or any other higher being, has absolutely no place in a science class. Faith is not science, and cannot be passed off as such, and has absolutely no place being taught to school children in a science class.
Religious based schools can and do teach religious ideology in their curriculum. That is their right to do and I have no argument with that. But it is important to understand where faith ends and science begins. But this does not mean that faith and science are incompatible, and a belief in one necessitates a rejection of the other.