Wednesday, June 01, 2005
Intellectual Schizophrenia
When the Discovery Institute's intelligent design roadshow rolled into Kansas, they brought with them the message that evolution makes atheists of all who embrace it. Only attorney Pedro Irigonegaray spoiled the show by pointing out the fact that that's a minority view.
An article by Paul Nussbaum in the Philidelphia Enquirer gives voice to a different -- more mainstream -- view:
An article by Paul Nussbaum in the Philidelphia Enquirer gives voice to a different -- more mainstream -- view:
For David Wilcox, a biology professor at Eastern University, an evangelical college in St. Davids, the challenge is to teach students that it's possible to embrace evolution "without intellectual schizophrenia."
"Frequently, they've been taught that evolution is another way of saying atheism, and they just shut it out," said Wilcox, author of God and Evolution: A Faith-Based Understanding. "They say, 'Why do I have to learn this stuff - don't you know that God hates science?' "
"We have to make them wake up and smell the coffee. God doesn't hate science - he invented it. We try to get them to see that evolution happened and it's not so scary... that evolution is the way God did it."
