Evolution

 Etc.
Feb 062005
 

Newsweek has this arti­cle on evo­lu­tion and “Intel­li­gent Design — a cri­tique of evo­lu­tion couched in the lan­guage of science.”

I am not sure why evo­lu­tion made it pos­si­ble to be an intel­lec­tu­ally ful­filled athe­ist — the for­ma­tion of life might have been a chem­i­cal reac­tion, but it was a chem­i­cal reac­tion that required a num­ber of para­me­ters to be just per­fect before it could begin.

Sci­ence will prob­a­bly be never be able to con­vinc­ingly explain how this set of cir­cum­stances came about — it requires a lit­tle bit of faith. Lit­eral inter­pre­ta­tion of reli­gious texts is fraught with peril because most such works are alle­gor­i­cal, but a lit­tle bit of sym­bolic license and you can rec­on­cile reli­gion with sci­ence. Like this arti­cle on the ten avatars of Vishnu.

 Posted by Karthik at 10:26 pm

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