Loony Left’s Hatred of Intelligent Design
I disagree with scientists or science-lovers (Libs or Cons) who lift science upon a secular holier-than-thou pedestal in which science explains everything or will explain everything as soon as scientific discovery catches up the unknown.
Case in point: Wacko columnist Glenn Edwards attacks intelligent design and bemoans any religious influence in our society not boxed into the separation of church and state.
Edwards is wrong on several points. Here are a few:
- Intelligent design does not automatically equal creationism. The Earth could have been created by a higher life form, not a God, and so it is incorrect to muddle their meanings by arguing they are one and the same.
- The Constitution does not have a separation of church and state. Religion and religious influence is encouraged, not discouraged, in the First Amendment. The wall of separation is liberal fiction.
- The United States was founded by Christians and remains still a Christian Nation. To unequivocally state the contrary is to defy history and read blindly such historical masterpieces as George Washington’s first Presidential Address. President Washington, said among other things that “[I]t would be peculiarly improper to omit in this first official act my fervent supplications to that Almighty Being who rules over the universe, who presides in the councils of nations, and whose providential aids can supply every human defect, that His benediction may consecrate to the liberties and happiness of the people of the United States a Government instituted by themselves for these essential purposes, and may enable every instrument employed in its administration to execute with success the functions allotted to his charge.”
- The mere discussion of intellgent design with or without Darwinism does not create an establishment of religion. Establishment is much more than discussion (e.g., citizen pays taxes to support the particular religious creed).
Ultimately, science attempts to explain what God created. Until the psuedo-religionists or athetists acknowledge this, they will never reach a complete (or more complete) understanding about the Earth, the Universe, and why we exist. For now, it seems that Thomas and other like-minded Wackos are content to remain in secular/scientific darkness.