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Rev. Glenn Wilkinson | Londonderry, Northern Ireland
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Observations on EVOLUTION SUNDAY #2
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2007
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BLOG ON: SERMON EVOLUTION SUNDAY: A Response
Londonderry Free Presbyterian Church
Rev Ian Brown
An excerpt from an address in support of Evolution Sunday entitled, 'Monkey in the Middle: How Intelligent Faith Links Science and Religion', given by Susan Elias at First Universalist Church, Yarmouth, ME:

"Today is the 197th birthday of Charles Darwin...Charles Darwin who sailed to the Galapagos on the H.M.S Beagle in 1831, Charles Darwin who meant to become a minister, but who became a scientist and gave us the Theory of Evolution.

This is Evolution Sunday, and 400-plus congregations around the country, from Presbyterians to Methodists, from Congregationalists to Unitarian Universalists, are gathering just like us, right now, to celebrate the compatibility of religion and science. Not the pseudo-science of intelligent design, but real science.

Make no mistake—Evolution Sunday is a response of the liberal religious left to the conservative politico-religious right.

Intelligent design, or ID, attributes the appearance and development of the universe to a super- intelligent being, that is, God. Actually, roots of ID go all the way back to Aristotle. But ID has evolved into an attack on the separation of church and state, science education in public schools, science, and scientists themselves.

You know, I've been demonized for being a woman, and demonized for being partnered with a woman, but I never expected to be demonized for being a
scientist. Wow. It is 2006, right?"

Actually 2007 ... but that's a minor point given some of the issues raised in these paragraphs by one Evolution Sunday advocate!

Thanks for being so frank about the ORIGINS of Evolution Sunday - its the product of the liberal religious left ... mmmh, enough said?!
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Blog Item2/15/07 8:05 PM
Neil | Tucson  Find all comments by Neil
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It's clever to play the martyr when speaking to friendly audiences; works up audience sympathy. But she was right on one thing: ID is Aristotelian philosophy, by way of Thomas Aquinas. It has a MAJOR weakness: even if it proves a Designer exists, it doesn't prove YHWH exists. Maybe Zeus or Shiva designed DNA. Catholic evidentialism is a logically inadequate apologetic system; skeptics really have nothing to fear from it.

Funny you should mention G & S, since Gilbert may have believed Darwin too, or at least wrote like he did:

Pooh-Bah: "I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty & exclusive person, of pre-Adamite ancestral descent. You will understand this when I tell you that I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule. Consequently, my family pride is something inconceivable. I can’t help it. I was born sneering. But I struggle hard to overcome this defect. I mortify my pride continually." - The Mikado, Act 1


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Patrick  Find all comments by Patrick
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"I've been demonized for being a woman, and demonized for being partnered with a woman...."

The Unitarian Universalists..???

Is this from a Gilbert and Sullivan opera ??

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