The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #82326   Message #1508153
Posted By: heric
23-Jun-05 - 01:43 PM
Thread Name: BS: Open Letter to Kansas School Board
Subject: RE: BS: Open Letter to Kansas School Board
I agree with JH that evolution does not negate any important aspect of Christian theology. But my understanding of what is happening is that they want to promote a certain intellectual laziness, fueled by false logic. Where there are flaws (or, perhaps more frequently, unanswered phenomena) in evolutionary theory, the default becomes "intelligent design."

Someone pointed out a interesting one to me recently. If African populations gradually inherited distinctive erythrocyte structures, as is believed, which prompted malaria resistance in a malaria-rich environment, and you want to provide equal time to "intelligent design," Then one would need to ask: Did the intelligent designer forget, or not know about, malaria, in the first instance, and then do an after-the fact fix? Pretty hard to study that without dogma.