I just finished reading the Rev Bird’s article in our local newsletter where he cites the book Darwin on Trial and seems to be a proponent of Intelligent Design (I think, I’m not sure exactly what point he was trying to make, but he does mention ‘the accomplishments of intelligent design’ in the article).

I have quite different views on the subject of religion and this isn’t the place to discuss or promote them as I’ve always believed ‘each to his own’ and providing that believers stick to quoting the bible (or whichever holy book they claim to be written by their particular god) and not pretending to discuss ‘pseudo science’, then I don’t have a problem at all.

Most ‘family church goers’ and the vast majority of mainstream christians are as appalled at the I.D nonsense as non-believers are.  There’s no conflict in most christian’s believing in their religion and also understanding and accepting that natural selection and evolution are the cornerstone of our understanding of how life came to be on the planet. Many don’t accept that the original ’spark of life’ could also have come about by purely natural means - they believe in a supernatural event at the very beginning. Again, I don’t have a problem with them believing that either. Science has yet to fully explain the phenomenon - but science may be getting close. read more…