Reply #7: Christan Churches should oppose

[PATRICK]

this faulty foray into combining science and religion. After all, it uses old deist and french philosophe wedges once intended to DIMINISH the influence of religion in science, the absent clockmaker God, the making of God in the image of the human mind as conceived by rationalists, a very non-emotive, restrictive and dampening intellectualization of faith.

If the WCC had any guts it would declare this BS anathema or whatever. Although in the pre-Renaissance days the world knowledge was left with a "theory" the world could be round, to insist on a retrograde retreat into darkness is the mark of a heresy- and a weird one at that. At least the Gnostics and Marcionites were not flying in the face of common knowledge. Their fantasies were reserved for the unseen.

Just because the mainstream Church power has lost all secular pull and its excommunications and anathemas don't lead to real life stakes and imprisonment doesn't mean that genuine Christians don't have a duty to speak out at really really abusive doctrines inflicted on society as political persecution. Is it reticence, embarrassment? A mutual club thing? A heretic is simply a self proclaimed Christian who is not one, but one glomming onto the name with idolatry of self and offensive alternatives. In less institutionalized and educated times, early in the Church's history there were cults galore, a soapbox for every new idiot prophet. Then there was the one Church world that never got its ideals wrapped around the World. Now there is the compartmentalized bland coexistence that refuses to deal with evil at all when it hits too close to its whitened walls.

Some Christians should enjoin the suit on religious grounds that ID is not a viable Christian theory at all. Our theologians would make mincemeat out of theirs. Fundamentally wrong, scientifically invalid, religiously in error. That leaves it as a frivolous argument for nutjobs to bully our schoolchildren and lie to them about both religion and science in such a way as to warp them into insane, impractical world views.