Posted on 10/09/2005 5:43:11 AM PDT by Crackingham
In the Harrisburg federal courtroom, he sits in a pew behind the plaintiffs. At a different time in his life, he might have been on the opposite side of the courtroom, behind the people who want intelligent design in Dover Area High School science classes. That was back when he tithed money to creationists and believed Jews were going to hell.
Now, he wears a tie depicting man evolving from his apelike ancestors. Dr. Burt Humburg shakes his head. An internal medicine resident at Penn State’s College of Medicine in Hershey, he talks about his personal evolution. And he talks about a movement that he believes, at its heart, is creationism.
As a boy in Kansas, Humburg was taught that a prayer cloth is false idolatry. To Humburg, the intelligent design movement is a surrogate for faith founded on a prayer cloth.
“They’ve placed all their faith in anti-evolution, and they think of it as good as believing in God. And it’s not.”
As Humburg watches the trial, he said he sees little new. He’s one of the early members of Kansas Citizens for Science, an organization that has twice fought attempts by pro-intelligent-design supporters to rewrite state science education standards. In the latest round, revamped standards that critics say pave the way for the supernatural in science class are expected to be approved later this fall. Until he moved to Lebanon in June, he had been fighting the changes in Kansas. The way he sees it, denying evolution is presuming to know how God works.
“It’s very blasphemous, to my way of thinking,” he said.
But intelligent design’s proponents argue it’s not about God, because the designer of life is never mentioned.
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Humburg talks about the Jesus he knows today, the one, he said, who loved to “rock people’s world” and challenged them to “love thy neighbor.”
“There’s nothing Jesus liked more than making people think,” Humburg said. “I like that Jesus. I don’t like the doler-out-of-smitings Jesus.”
Last month, he attended a crowded meeting at Dover’s fire hall in which the Rev. Jim Grove, a Loganville pastor, showed the creationist video, “Why evolution is stupid.”
When Humburg tried to tell those at the meeting how he reconciled his faith with evolutionary theory, a woman told the medical doctor that college had brainwashed him. Humburg disagrees.
“God loves me,” he said. “No data will ever cause me to question that.”
Well, that was enlightening.
Just remember the creationist credo: By explaining away the supernatural, science has made itself the laughingstock of the intellectual world.
Humbug.
Huh?
Placemarker
...another one.
Nice try. Crackingham has been posting crevo threads for some time now.
Its the "Post without comment" aspect of his posts, combined with their natural tendency to create discord that I find "trollish".
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