Editor,
Darwinians and Creationists agree - they just don't know it.
Reading last week's Daily Lobo opinion column entitled "Teach all sides of origin," I once again am saddened by the fanatics on both sides.
There is a fundamental problem with the author's statement, "With a Western scientific paradigm comes the acceptance that life was not created for any purpose or with any goal, but is an outcome of many years of random, physically based occurrences."
Why? Who says so? Charles Darwin certainly didn't.
Why don't we entertain the following possibility: We should feel completely enlightened and rescued from the conundrum if we consider the simple idea that we are part of nature. Both antagonists make the error that human beings are somehow the elite, God-knowing or God-created beasts on this Earth.
Everything living is part of this creation and should be included in all Creationist views. Einstein once said, "God is the perfect mathematician." The beauty of matter at its simplest subatomic level has been put to an equally beautiful use. This view automatically marries the two arguments and unifies the subject into one thesis that all of us may have been called upon and is drawn toward the truth or God.
We are witnessing God's creativity, and it hasn't stopped here. We humans just so happen to be members of one of the first species that has developed the intelligence to recognize the concept. The fact that we are arguing about it proves that we are at an early evolutionary stage in our understanding but we are nevertheless starting to think along the right lines.
People like Jesus, Mohammed and all the prophets and saints may have been especially enlightened, blessed and beyond our development, and they may have been put on this Earth to give us a nudge in the right direction.
I hope one day the Creationists and the members of the Intelligent Design Network, who refuse to accept the overwhelming evidence that we are part of this rich tapestry, will come to realize that science may well be proving nature. This may be a good thing, in which case, there's no need to be threatened by it.
Stephen Durant
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