yellowsummers

Well, first off, I think complete trust of the Bible doesn't make sense. It's not like God arranged the ink on the paper to tell us his exact recollections of the creation. It was something written by a human. It's very old. My family is Christian and thinks of it as a myth, metaphor, a cultural thing.

Beyond that, I've never even seen the conflict between evolution and religion. Most religious people believe that clouds, for example, are suspended particles of condensation. They also believe that these clouds are a part of God's creation. There is a scientific explanation, and believing in it doesn't make you any less religious. As a child in Sunday School, I was taught that God made plants grow and wounds heal. I know (and knew then, thanks to Bill Nye) that there are very apparent scientific explanation for how plants grow and wounds heal. But the two explanations aren't contradictory to me. Just because our origin is bigger and harder to see shouldn't turn it into a black-and-white debate. The world is an intricate web, and everything has a provable scientific basis- but that doesn't mean it's just a big ol' rock covered in carefully arranged chemicals. We know that our emotions are caused by electrical impulses, hormones and pheromones, but we still view ourselves as conscious, feeling humans. Why, then, must the creationism debate be so split?

My pastor put science and religious teachings in terms of "how" and "why".

Why can't people just view God as the creator of science? I think that denouncing evolution and similar theories on the basis that they contradict religion shows ignorance and overly simplified thinking.