Monday, March 30, 2009

Survival of the Fittest


Today on of my education classes, "The American School," we talked about the controversies of evolution in the classroom. It really scared me how many people in a class full of future educators think that intelligent design should be taught alongside evolution. I don't understand how people can't embrace their religious veiws and embrace scientific theories each within thier own realm. I guess it always comes down to how literally people can take religious documents; one girl in the back of the classroom believes that the eart is probably about 10,000 years old. I feel like if I took the bible literally my head would explode trying to accomodate all of the contradictions.


I guess it comes down to my own recent disillusionment with Christianity. I used to think I was really Chirstian, and it's not that I don't still believe that all of the peace and forgiveness that Jesus taught is wrong, but I deffinitely don't believe in one truth. I never have, but I'm begining to see that this belief is really imcompatible with Christianity. I also think we're living in a world where a lot of scary things are done in the name of religion. I think science can be just as comforting a belief system, and I feel like science unites a lot of the world rather than tearing it apart. I dunno...I never want religious beleifs of some devine world to resrict my experience and understanding of the world under my feet.


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