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Popeye the Sailor used to say "enough is too much". Please create an
evolution vs. creation list-serve or a chat group, but please go away.
Don Stidsen...MIT Museum
On Jan 11, 2007, at 12:38 PM, Anna Grace wrote:
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> OK, I have to throw my hat into the ring at this point. This has
> been a fascinating discussion. Thank you, Mac , for sharing the
> views of St. Thomas Aquinas. I agree with him wholeheartedly.
>
> Science and religion are different, like apples and oranges.
> Religion is
> based on belief (faith) and science is based on evidence. While
> they both
> go about answering the same questions, they do it in a very
> different way.
>
> While I personally don't believe in God, that doesn't mean He/She/
> They don't
> exist. It just hasn't been scientifically proven. There is no
> scientific
> evidence. Will there ever be? I have no idea. Right now, the
> question of the existence of God belongs only in the realm of
> religion and
> faith. A scientist can do science (look for evidence) and believe
> in God at the
> same time. They are not mutually exclusive.
>
> Years ago when I taught 8th grade science, I had a student say to
> me, "I
> don't belleve in dinosaurs." And I said, "That's OK, you don't
> have to, but
> in science class we're going to learn about the evidence for their
> existence."
>
> People are going to believe what they want to believe. Beliefs are
> very
> hard to change. Our role as science educators is twofold: to
> present the
> scientific evidence for theories like evolution and let people
> decide for
> themselves what they want to believe AND to point out that theories
> like ID
> and creationism are not based on scientific evidence and therefore
> fall into
> the realm of religion (theology, philosophy, mythology, whatever
> you want to call it)
> and not science.
>
> Anna
>
> On Jan 10, 2007, at 8:31 AM, WILLIAM M. SUDDUTH wrote:
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>> This is a very old problem. St Thomas Aquinas sought to reconcile
>> science
>> with religion by dividing it into two realms that could not
>> contradict
>> each other (reason and revelation). To Aquinas God was a matter
>> of faith
>> and not of proof. Moreover, he thought to be able to scientifically
>> prove God would destroy the beauty and value of faith. After all
>> if you
>> can prove it scientifically, then what's the point of believing?
>>
>> Dr. Mac Sudduth
>> Coordinator of Science Grants
>> Premier DeKalb County Schools
>> Department of Research and Evaluation
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>> Decatur, Georgia 30032-1099
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