Overreach by those claiming to be scientific in their thoughts is a great source of modern distrust in science. It’s a corrosive fault that needs to be pruned out if science is to retain any semblence of the respect and trust that it should have.

In essence the creationist rebuttal ran along the following lines -

1. Assumption; God made man in his own image.

2. If this is so, one assumes that all of man, imperfections and all, are present in God as well.

3. At the age of sixtyfive, I have difficulty holding my water through the night.

4. There are other bits associated with the same plumbing which don’t work too good either.

5. I can’t hold that latter bit against him because we both only have one son.

6. But why did he have to inflict me with the plumbing problems. He could at least have allowed one improvement.

The “intelligent design” is slightly different and went something like this -

1. Man was originally designed as a four-legged creature.

2. This meant that everything hung from the spine like washing on a clothesline.

3. The “intelligent designer” thought that man would be improved by standing upright.

4. As a consequence all the washing now has to defy the law of gravity and hang sideways.

The line of thought ran from there to the design of the pelvis and the difficulty of birthing a large head through a pelvis that has narrow holes so that your guts don’t fall through.

Oh what the hay - I thought it was hilarious.

In essence the creationist rebuttal ran along the following lines -

1. Assumption; God made man in his own image.

2. If this is so, one assumes that all of man, imperfections and all, are present in God as well.

3. At the age of sixtyfive, I have difficulty holding my water through the night.

4. There are other bits associated with the same plumbing which don’t work too good either.

5. I can’t hold that latter bit against him because we both only have one son.

6. But why did he have to inflict me with the plumbing problems. He could at least have allowed one improvement.

The “intelligent design” is slightly different and went something like this -

1. Man was originally designed as a four-legged creature.

2. This meant that everything hung from the spine like washing on a clothesline.

3. The “intelligent designer” thought that man would be improved by standing upright.

4. As a consequence all the washing now has to defy the law of gravity and hang sideways.

The line of thought ran from there to the design of the pelvis and the difficulty of birthing a large head through a pelvis that has narrow holes so that your guts don’t fall through.

Oh what the hay - I thought it was hilarious.

I was only trying to express: life is a crapshoot. And, badly at that. That’s what happens when you are in a hurry…
Sorry for the generalization, and I agree with you.

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Leading Cardinal Redefines Church’s View on Evolution
An influential cardinal in the Roman Catholic Church, which has long been regarded as an ally of the theory of evolution, is now suggesting that belief in evolution as accepted by science today …

The Commissar notes a widely-linked piece about a Catholic cardinal who appears to reject evolution as being incompatible with Catholic faith.
He says, “I thought the Catholic Church had learned from its little dispute with Galileo.”
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