You know, I have no dog in this fight; it makes little or no difference to me, whether man was created by God, evolved from apes, or was brought here by aliens from outer space.
My own religion says God is the First Cause of all things, and anything that happens after that is subject to debate; for me, evolution makes an interesting dinner-table debate, and is certainly no more important than that.
While not being a proponent of two of the theories, I tend to be mildly negative about the third one, the theory of evolution. Not that it doesn't make sense, which it does, to a limited and fallible human brain, but mostly simply because of the stridency, the shrillity, the fanaticism, of evolution enthusiasts.
I rarely meet people who are so sure they're so right about something.
As history has shown, the one and only real Truth is God; all "truths" discerned by man have shifted, altered, evaporated, throughout the ages.
One is struck, for example, that people before circa 1808 had a very different perception of time and space than people now, in 2008. Albert Einstein happened about mid-way through the past 200 years, and was perhaps subconsciously affected by nearly-imperceptible trends that preceded him, and managed to articulate this different perception of time and space, influencing the rest of us the following 100 years.
I have no doubt the law of gravity--which makes perfect sense to the limited and fallible human brain, including mine--will be found to be "wrong" in my own lifetime, and that sometime later this same century, it will be shown that 2 + 2 does NOT = 4. I have no idea what any new theories might propose, only that they'll be utterly different from our beliefs about gravity and mathematics as they presently are.
The evolution debate in Kansas a few years ago struck me as oddly familiar, something I'd seen before; that famous debate in southern France circa 1250, about how many teeth are inside the mouth of a horse. In that one, there were those who argued such could be discerned by the Scriptures, and those who argued such could be discerned by opening the horse's mouth and counting the molars.
The evolution enthusiasts won the debate down there in Kansas, but lost. One has to remember that those who had argued the Scriptures as the basis for discerning the number of teeth a horse has, some 750 years ago, had won that debate, too.
What I was seeing down in Kansas what what the world had seen many times before; the old order, in this case the evolution enthusiasts, decaying and brittle and adamant, trying desperately to remain relevant in a changing world, winning a temporary victory, which quickly thereafter erodes into dust.
As I said, it's not a big issue with me, the origins of mankind; there's plenty of other issues in this world more important than this. All the money, time, and energy spent on promoting evolution could probably feed a great many of the hungry children in the world. Evolution makes sense to me, but it's not really worth anything other than a casual debate over the dinner-table, nothing more.
And one has to remember God has a sense of humor.
God, being Almighty and All-Powerful, can do as God wishes, and who's to say that God didn't create all these things, this "evidence," that appears to be millions of years old to the limited, fallible human brain, just to stymie and confuse those who think they know, or can know, All?
