{"id":876,"date":"2007-05-06T20:26:52","date_gmt":"2007-05-07T01:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=876"},"modified":"2007-07-19T14:17:56","modified_gmt":"2007-07-19T19:17:56","slug":"noted-with-comment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=876","title":{"rendered":"Noted with comment"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m lucky I’m a religious liberal, because religious liberals find absolutely no contradiction between the poetic truth of the Bible and the scientific truth of evolution. However, as reported in the New York Times<\/em> on May 5, in an article titled “A Split Emerges as Conservatives Discuss Darwin,” that is not true for some of the candidates for the Republican nomination for President:<\/p>\n

[T]he [Republican] party’s 10 candidates for president were asked during their first debate whether they believed in evolution. Three — Senator Sam Brownback of Kansas; Mike Huckabee, former governor of Arkansas; and Representative Tom Tancredo of Colorado — indicated they did not.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Silly boys:– saying they do not “believe” in evolution because their religion forbids them to. Yet their religion tells them that their God is omniscient and omnipotent. If their God is omniscient, then that God understands the difference between scientific evidence and metaphor; and if their God is omnipotent, then that God knows how to use metaphor in the Bible to communicate eternal truths.<\/p>\n

Silly Sam Brownback. Silly Mike Huckabee. Silly Tom Tancredo. Don’t you think your God is smart enough to understand science and metaphor both? (And don’t you know that you’re embarrassing many of your politically conservative friends whose God is<\/em> smart enough to understand that?)<\/p>\n

In the comments, Philocrites, a.k.a. Chris, shows me where I’m wrong. I reply, admit he’s right, and try to recover my balance. Although I still say you should vote for one of the other Republican candidates.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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