Thursday, June 09, 2005
How God Created the Universe
Intelligent design proponents insist that teaching evolution in public schools is an endorsement of atheism. That notion is challenged by the Rev. Kenneth L. Chumbly, rector of Christ Episcopal Church in Springfield, Missouri. In a very sensible Op-ed in the Springfield News-Leader he says:
How God created the universe, I told the man at the coffeehouse, was a mystery to me, just as it was surely a mystery to the writers of the Genesis creation stories.
Their accounts, I said, are poetry, not science; truth, but not fact. I believe that God created (and goes on creating) in a slow, steady way, which does not threaten my faith in the Creator. In fact, it only adds to my sense of wonder at the love and power of God.
