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December 16, 2005 at 07:43:31

Intelligent-design debate reveals limits of religion and science

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On the origins of life, evolutionary theory appears to be a compelling framework. It is folly to disregard it out of a need to believe in religious magic. But it also is folly to believe evolutionary theory is the last word on the subject and all that remains is to work out the details.

A more sensible path is to acknowledge that we live in a material world and also are part of creation.

We can look at a material world and be grateful for how some scientists have helped us understand, in limited ways, its workings. And we can be disappointed in the way some science has contributed to the degradation of the world’s ecosystems, in large part through arrogance and an underdeveloped sense of our intellectual limits.

We can look at creation and be grateful for the ways that some religious people have helped us understand, in limited ways, its meaning. And we can be disappointed in the way some religion has encouraged people to narrow the scope of inquiry into the meaning of human existence, in large part because of that same arrogance and problems with comprehending limits.

As we struggle with the timeless questions about the meaning of creation, we face the urgent problem of creating sustainable systems in the material world. This is the task of our moment in history, and to succeed we will need the best of both these traditions.

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Robert Jensen is a journalism professor at the University of Texas at Austin and board member of the Third Coast Activist Resource Center. His latest book, All My Bones Shake: Radical Politics in the Prophetic Voice, will be published in 2009 by Soft Skull Press. He also is the author of Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity (South End Press, 2007); The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism and White Privilege (City Lights, 2005); Citizens of the Empire: The Struggle to Claim Our Humanity (City Lights, 2004); and Writing Dissent: Taking Radical Ideas from the Margins to the Mainstream (Peter Lang, 2002). Jensen's articles can be found online at http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~rjensen/index.html.

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Intelligenr Design Debate in the US Reveals..Nothing

Nowhere else but here we debate that. And the funny thing is that we don't care. We are mad.
But there is a reason for the madness here.Our US Christianity is in fact a cult and cultists need first and foremost control over children. That comes from the experience. If the cultists do not control the children, the cult dies. Zionism is such a cult and that's why they are so desperate about children. So are ALL US branches of the Christian Lutheran Church. Deep inside they know they are cultists. And that's why they want monopoly on everything, especially thought and power. If by any chance a President of this country one morning comes out to the public and laughes his ears off on the
' intelligent design', the issue would have died. But the anomaly in power develops and spreads like cancer. And we have what we have: even very good people like Mr. Jensen fall under the spell.

Sorry, folks, it is all smoke and mirrors. We came from monkeys. Maybe that's why the majority of us is still behaving like ones. Monkeys are cultists, didn't you notice?

by Mark Sashine (46 articles, 19 quicklinks, 235 diaries, 3358 comments) on Friday, December 16, 2005 at 8:39:37 AM

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