Sermons

Back in 1987 there was a significant debate on the latest incarnation of biblical literalism. Then was called “creation science.” The literalists lined up a collection of “scientists” who argued for a literal six-day spontaneous creation. And the witnesses for evolution? Were they astrophysicists, molecular biologists? No! It was progressive Biblical theologians who argued against Genesis- against literal interpretation. These Biblical theologians talked about metaphorical theology and they talked about God as creator and companion, in covenant relationship with the creation, stories that were told in ancient terms that ancient people could understand out there in the deserts of Canaan. Our courts- all the way to the Supreme Court- ruled that the belief that the concept of a supernatural creator being responsible for the creation of human kind is a religious viewpoint and cannot be taught in public schools in the context of scientific theories like evolution.
The debate didn’t end in 1987. The latest challenge to good science and to good Biblical scholarship is called the “Intelligent Design” theory, which is mostly “creation science” in disguise.
"Intelligent design is a Trojan Horse for bringing religious creationism back into public school science classes." "Teaching students about religion's role in world history and culture is proper, but disguising a particular religious belief as science is not," [Witold Walczak, C & S, op cit] The insertion of Intelligent Design into science books “is not only unconstitutional, it is bad science.".
How would you like it if your local school board pasted the Intelligent Design’s proponents are the folks who want that famous disclaimer inserted into your daughter’s biology textbook. In 2003 they filed a lawsuit in Texas. Steven Shafersman represented the Texas scientific community:
“[This group] keeps asking for flaws- weaknesses and criticisms- of Darwinism and Darwininan theory to be presented in the textbooks, but the books already contain this information. … All the biology books point out that Darwin had no knowledge of modern genetics, and that he was ignorant of evolutionary mechanisms other than random mutations, natural selection, and genetic variability. Research in the 20th century has corrected these defects in his original theory, and modern evolutionary theory is much stronger. [C&S Nov, 2003]

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