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Monday, 6 February 2006
You have got to be kidding me.
Grumpy

According to this article, NASA must ensure that it advances religious teaching as well as science in its press releases.

The Big Bang is "not proven fact; it is opinion," Mr. Deutsch wrote, adding, "It is not NASA's place, nor should it be to make a declaration such as this about the existence of the universe that discounts intelligent design by a creator."

It continued: "This is more than a science issue, it is a religious issue. And I would hate to think that young people would only be getting one-half of this debate from NASA. That would mean we had failed to properly educate the very people who rely on us for factual information the most."

Well, if the Administration is concerned that young people might only get "one-half of this debate" from any particular source, then in all fairness the churches should start teaching the scientific theories of the universe's origin as well as the religious ones, n'est ce pas?

And I'm not even going to get into the whole "factual information" thing.


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Who's religion? Where does Buddha stand on this? Or Allah? Oh, it's only the Christians... sorry. Everyone's wrong!
Posted by Lisa on 6 Feb 2006 21:02
You know, I grew up in a church where the pastor openly admitted that he believed in the Big Bang and in evolution; that Genesis was just early Man's attempt to explain how he came to be here. He felt (unsurprisingly, given his vocation) that God caused the Big Bang to happen, but planned it so perfectly that everything that came afterwards — the formation of the sun and planets, the origin of life, the evolutionary chain, and so forth &mdash followed from the Big Bang without the need for intervention.

Thus, he felt there was no need for science and religion to be at odds; scientific inquiry into the nature and history of the universe was, to him, an exploration of the wonders of God's power, and something to be celebrated rather than despised. (Of course, he'd have been torn limb from limb had he admitted his beliefs in a denomination which believed that every word of the Bible is literal truth.)

Alas, it seems our own secular government is well on its way to becoming one of those denominations. God Bless the Republic of Gilead!

Posted by Godfrey on 7 Feb 2006 05:02
That guy sounds too intelligent and reasonable to be working for the Church. No fire and brimstone - how does he plan to get ahead with reason?
Posted by Lisa on 7 Feb 2006 19:28