tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2702849761356366288.post6960255166361560555..comments2019-11-15T23:40:25.767-05:00Comments on As I Understand It: What we can learn from Adam's bellybuttonAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00236718196507107199noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2702849761356366288.post-47183044712591080582014-11-14T12:21:43.236-05:002014-11-14T12:21:43.236-05:00"In addition to reading the Word of God prese..."In addition to reading the Word of God presented in the Bible, creationists could read the Word of God presented in the universe that tells a story of thirteen billion years of history, including our rich evolutionary past."<br /><br />Really well written. Also very respectful. As someone raised as a creationist, it took me many years to embrace an outlook of life and the universe in line with current science. I'm now a STEM major at a great university, but I've maintained my faith. I tell my atheist and agnostic friends that if they truly want to see people give up young-Earth creationism and other pseudoscience, the most effective thing they can do is simply show respect towards their fellow human beings and not present theists with a choice of 'science or God'. Growing up I always felt this tension and never wanted to explore evolution because I felt I'd eventually have to make this choice. In this cynical day and age, it's more fun to speak in 'bumper stickers' and spout off clever one-liners to 'pwn' our ideological opponents. Yet this slows the progress of good ideas. I'll never forget the feeling I had the day I realized God was the God of science. I no longer had to choose! Reading a geology textbook was suddenly as spiritual as going to church.<br /><br />I think we'd be amazed at the rate people (all people) modernized their ideas if we'd simply put down our 'guns' and phrase things the way you have. Well said. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com