I was talking to my husband about this last post and I realized I don't understand why people accept these religious explanations of biological phenomena over the scientific explanation. But then I started thinking, and here's a possible thought -
People accept the religious explanation because in their mind it doesn't change - it has stood the test of time. Scientific explanation is always changing - theories are always being adapted to deal with new data. But if you want your explanations to always stay the same, you're essentially saying that we've learned all that we need to know, that there's no real purpose behind science (which in my opinion is to provide increasingly better explanations of the world around us), and that there's no need to learn, to explore, to progress.
That's such a depressing view of the world (that there's only one good explanation for everything and we have it by invoking God). If God really designed us to be the way we are, then I would believe that he would design us to change, to progress. Nothing in this world remains the same, so why would God make us the exception? Even in the Bible, God changes from the vengeful God of the Old Testament to the compassionate and loving God of the New Testament. I really wonder sometimes what these fundamentalist Christians are trying to do. I personally think it's all a ploy to make everyone stupid and to place themselves in power over other people's lives. And if I remember correctly, Jesus never sought power over other people lives.
Sorry for the religious rant. I promise I'll get back to all the good explanations that science has very soon.
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