Creationism, Intelligent Design, Evolution...

Look, the God of Genesis may have created the world in six days. I don't think it says the universe, just the world, as in the Earth. But anyway, I have no problem reconciling the Genesis version of six days on God's time scale with millions of years on a human time scale. I'll even allow that the limited story actually meant the whole universe. Whatever. It's just that a whole lot of detail was left out. No one in biblical times would have understood it anyway.

There are creation stories in many many flavors. Very few of them, if any, make sense in a scientific context. They are explanations for the minds at the time they were fabricated, yes, fabricated. For all we know the Big Bang Theory and other current ideas will seem just as naive at some point in the future.

I can also reconcile the design aspect. What is wrong with saying that some creator set the whole thing in motion AND the basic principles involve evolution? God can't be smart enough to create something that ultimately makes sense?? It has to be some haphazard method which can only be supported by faith and not science? Where's the 'design' in that? Couldn't we just be discovering the design? Or does God want it all to be unknown and unknowable in which case he wasted design time on our brains.

Why must religion and science be mutually exclusive? To me, one is likely just the detail of the other, stuff the ancient storytellers left out because they didn't know enough to explain it and their audience wouldn't have understood it if they tried.

We've come a long way, baby. We know more than the shepherd's of Moses' day and let's face it, it's the Bible thumpers who are trying to freeze a set of stories in their original timeframe and refuse to let them flex with current knowledge. Most other religious factions and spiritual varieties are perfectly content to exist along side, or interwoven with, scientific discoveries.

It's an infinite thing, All That Is. Whatever set it all in motion, I don't have a problem with that one touch being clever enough to set loose a design that will fascinate us forever, and of which we will never find an end... nor in fact, the actual beginning, at least not to the satisfaction of all.

Religion doesn't have the details. Science doesn't have an ultimate source. Seems to me they fill a void for each other. .....Okay, that's where the big bang comes in. Heads banging against each other in futility? phht

(I must be feeling better. I'm running off at the mouth about schtuff again ;)

Postscript: Alright, now this is funny. I wrote this blog in a notepad file to be copied into blogger. I finished it at... Are you ready?.... 2:22 hahahahahaha

Wish t'hell (or heaven) someone would provide some meaningful details on THAT design!