If Governor Palin is a “bible believing Christian” as she says she is, we can assume that she believes in some sort of Creationist theory or the modified theory of Intelligent Design. In either case this has gotten the Liberals’ underwear in a twist. For the record, I am not a believer in Creationist theory and as for Intelligent Design, for me the jury is still out.
And for the record, I was a science major in college concentrating my studies in biology (65 credits out 120 in biology alone to be exact). Moreover, I was a graduate student at Columbia University (New York) seeking a Ph.D. in Philosophy at which I obtained 60 credits towards that un-obtained degree. I did this while receiving a full fellowship (room, board and tuition) from the State of New York. So I come to this subject with a certain amount of education and therefore, I would assume, credibility.
And to place a cap on the whole thing, I taught high school biology, which included as part of its curriculum Darwin’s theory of natural selection (in a word “Evolution”) while serving as a Peace Corps volunteer in the Philippine Islands between 1962 and 1964.
The classes included Catholics, Protestants and Muslims. Needless to say the students resisted the theory. The Catholic students even challenged my right to teach them this theory (it was public school, notwithstanding) and demanded that I receive dispensation from the local Jesuit priest, which I did.
So in discussing the matter of Governor Palin’s religious beliefs and the Darwinian theory of natural selection I come to it with a deep understanding from a scientific, philosophic and political point of view. Realizing that I don’t have the luxury of writing 300 to 400 pages on the subject, but rather between 300 to 400 words in this blog article…I will get right to point.
Liberal thinking about the subject of evolution is erroneous at the core. And I know it may shocking to those true believers in evolution but the theory is unproven at its worst and flawed at its best. Oh, yes, scientists know how living things transfer their genetic material from one living organism to another, thereby creating an organism of the same species.
That’s the easy part. What they haven’t any certainty about is how the various species got to be those species in the first place. I know this may come as a surprise to vast numbers of people but most genetic mutations remain in the organism without any reason having to do with the push of environmental change…which by the way flies in the face of the very core of the Darwinian theory.
My point being that Governor Palin’s bible believing Christianity is probably no better, in terms of understanding the Universe from a metaphysical point of view, than those pinheads’, for example, at MIT.
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written by Daniel Peterson , October 01, 2008
Roger, for the record, the case brought to the courts on ID concluded that the ID case was the creationists way of bringing religous interpretation of life into the science class.
An article was found in the early 1980s where a Creationist textbook on the origins of life was in the works. The textbook was actually completed and ready for release when the case went to the courts.
When the courts ruled that Creationism wasn't a form of natural science, the creationists invented "Intellegent Design" as a means to avoid the word "Creator" in the text book.
The courts ruled that there is no difference between ID and Creationism. Early copies of the first ID textbook had typos and references to a "Creator" instead of a "Designer."
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