Genetic 'Crossing-over' Is No Help to Evolution

It’s a fascinating subject that negates the premise that everything was created all at once, fully formed and fully functional, but has only declined in form and function since then.

Maybe instead of saying, "Why challenge His methods?" I should have said "Why perceive His methods--or our inevitably incomplete understanding of them--as a threat?"

I don't know that the theories of evolution are God's method--but if they are, they are a gift of divine grace. Why would you think otherwise?

Evolution is a theory. When you come right down to it, everything we know is a theory--or an axiom (which is on equally shaky ground).

When Socrates said that he didn't know anything. He wasn't joking. He meant exactly that.

I do not consider the presence of God to be a theory--instead to be the only thing that I know--but obviously some do.

I don't know that the theories of evolution are God's method, but it's the best explanation we've got right now. And if it is His method of creation, why would you perceive it as some kind of threat?

When Galileo said the earth revolved around the sun, leaders of the Church charged him with heresy and forced him to recant. They considered his theory to be a threat. Why? If God has chosen to let the earth revolve around the sun, so what?

Today their horror at his theories strikes us as silly. And, frankly, the horror that the theories of evolution invoke today are just as silly.

Galileo's ideas are widely accepted today. In fact, it would be foolish to challenge their validity. However, we accept them as fact only because (1) every attempt to prove or disprove the truth of them has evidently confirmed them (but, again, even the evidence, based as it is entirely on appearances--i.e. what appears to be--must ultimately be accepted on faith) and (2) everybody believes them to be true. However, the possibility remains that they could be untrue.

I just can't see how the struggle to understand the methods by which God has created and continues to create could be some kind of threat--or blasphemy--or heresy.

On the contrary, our struggle to understand seems to be a part of the method by which He works miracles--such as flight in heavier-than-air vehicles, television, computers, and the ability to fly to the moon--not to mention the cure of childhood leukemia, the prevention of smallpox, and, we pray, the cure of diabetes within our lifetime.

"The real question, in your arrogance, is "What special holy wisdom do you claim to have, and the athority to say it's not...."

No Special Holy Wisdom, but The Athority of Arrogance!

And the Arrogance of the Ruthless Persuit of Truth!

(BTW, X, did you mean to say: "The real question, of Your Arrogance, is..."? I thought maybe you meant it as a form of address.)

“To enter life by way of the vagina is as good a way as any.”
Henry Miller