So if someone asks, Do you believe in evolution, they are framing it wrong. Thats like asking, Do you believe in blue? Evolution is nothing more than a fairly simple way of understanding what is unquestionably happening. You dont believe in it — you either understand it or you dont. But pretending evolution is a matter of faith can be a clever way to hijack the conversation, and pit it in a false duality against religion. And thats how we end up with people decrying evolution, even as they eat their strawberries and pet their dogs, because theyve been led to believe faith can only be held in one or the other. But theres no reason for people of faith to reject the mountains of data and the evidence of their own senses. Reconciling is easy: Believe, if you want to, that God set up the rules of evolution among His wonders, along with the laws of physics, and probability, and everything else we can see and measure for ourselves. But dont deny evolution itself, or gravity, or the roundness of Earth. Thats just covering your eyes and ears.
Posted on: Mon, 04 Aug 2014 23:31:23 +0000