To quote:

So, when I hear people (especially those whom I’d like to believe are educated), stating they don’t believe in evolution and using a literal interpretation of a holy document as their evidence, I get frustrated. Where did our education system fail? Where did logic fail? Where did anyone first get the idea that any committee written and edited across sometimes millennia holy document can only be read as literal truth? (Personally, the idea that we would limit God(s) to communicating and inspiring only literal and never figurative truth seems like a rather narrow-minded idea.)

When any of our nation’s leaders come out against evolution, they are coming out against science. Period.

Full article here:

http://www.starstryder.com/2007/06/06/politics-religion-science-and-tears/

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http://cosmicvariance.com/