evolution<\/em> is the root of all evil<\/a>. This is not surprising. So many in our society seek a justification for greed, and both Christianity and science often get hijacked to this end. Christianity is regularly hijacked to distract and comfort Americans with regard to their most common sin. But to build a multi-million dollar museum promoting ideas that are neither scientific nor scriptural, when so many in our world face a daily struggle to find enough food and clean drinking water to survive, is not merely un-Christian. It is antithetical to every Biblical principle of morality.<\/p>\nIndeed, to jump to another commandment for a moment, proponents of Intelligent Design are complicit in murder<\/em> in several ways. By taking funds away that could (if people were emphasizing what the Bible says) be used to help the needy, they cause the deaths of many hungry people. Second, by opposing science, which has helped prevent and treat countless diseases, they are causing the deaths of still more people. If we added to this anger<\/em>, which is identified in the Sermon on the Mount as a form of murder, we could find still more evidence on their blogs and in other contexts.<\/p>\nReturning to the second commandment, proponents of Intelligent Design also commit idolatry by suggesting that only their narrow, impoverished view of a Designer is an adequate view of God. That God could work through natural causes (as the Bible often says God did), that God could (to use the famous pool table analogy) pot all the balls in one shot rather than needing to do each individually, is adamantly denied. Replacing the God about whom St. Augustine said \u201cIf you understand it, it isn\u2019t God\u201d with their flawed human reasoning is certainly a form of idolatry as well.<\/p>\n
More than this, some proponents of Intelligent Design actually mock the Biblical creation stories. Denyse O\u2019Leary, in a recent blog entry, made fun of people who believe that \u201cmud-to-mind\u201d is compatible with their faith<\/a>. Genesis 2 says precisely that, that God made human beings from \u2018dirt\u2019. Unless you believe God literally has hands and did a lot of molding, squeezing, bending and pressing, then the question of how God did so remains open. But O\u2019Leary shows the same disdain for the Bible that she does for science and for polite and informative discourse.<\/p>\nReturning to the ten commandments, the recent Dover trial showed clear evidence of how they are willing to bear false witness<\/em> and take God\u2019s name in vain<\/em> in order to do so. They also presumably covet the status evolution has as a reputable scientific theory, but are unwilling to do all the hard work evolutionary biologists, paleontologists, geneticists and other mainstream scientists did which led to evolution having that status.<\/p>\nThis leads me to conclude with their opposition to a key American <\/em>value. Intelligent Design is opposed to the American ethic of hard work. Scientists have worked hard to contribute to our knowledge and our well-being, our health and our standard of living and our comfort. Instead of being appreciated, they are denigrated, by people who do no such hard work themselves and make no such contribution to our society. Hard workers do not deserve to be demonized and denigrated by those who covet their position in this way.<\/p>\nIf you are a Christian, take a good hard look at Intelligent Design and ask \u201cWhat Would Jesus Do?\u201d Can you imagine Jesus being here today and going around talking about Intelligent Design?
It is appalling that so many American Christians support a movement that is, in general, characterized by principles that are opposed to those of both Christianity and America.<\/p>\n
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