Methinks they doth protest too much...

Scientists Richard Dawkins and Carl Sagan have something in common. It seems from their presentations in both the mass media and in their writings that civilization as we know it is in desperate
need of salvation from religion. These fellows are sure that people of faith have checked the grey matter at the door and entered all areas of life ill equipped.

Having rediscovered an old High School chum recently who works as a biologist for the Oregon Fish and Wildlife Service, one who is a living ecologist (her practice matches her profession), I was reassured by her that she is a person of faith and believes in a designer, a creator, a mind behind the seeming randomness (not that it seems random to me IMHO).

I am slow to blow her cover because while her child attends a private school of a Christian persuasion, both her and her husband (he is also employed in a similar profession) are not in the favorite flavor of the day amongst "Creationists." That is, they accept evolution as a mechanism of the Creator and an old date derived from Scientific method for planet origin. If you are reading this and want to get out the ropes the stakes and the matches for my friends, include me in, also. I am an "old earther". But I also know one thing that neither Dawson nor Sagan seem ready to admit. Billions of years is not too long for 6 interuptive acts of "terraforming" our environment so that Homo Sapiens would be able to thrive! (That is how I read Genesis chapter one!) But Darwin's scheme of Macroevolution by without causation outside the process, would take Trillions of years. We know this know thanks to the Science of Microbiology According to Dr. Hugh Ross' book, Creation and Time.

Do Ross' writings aid my argument and float my desired biases? Sure, I am willing to state that publicly. Do Dawkins and Sagan get emotional and wax all philosophical in their anti-religious crusade? Seems that way to me! But Let's not rush to judgement. I think it was that dangerous religious zealot, Jesus of Nazareth, who forbade his followers from condemning others hastily and instead posited a God who would judge with equity and true justice. So I suppose the best thing for this teapot tempest would be to "give it up" to the ultimate arbiter of the universe and I don't mean chance.

Peace on the planet
and Good Will towards all Sincere Scientia,

Steve Cornell