Has it been almost a month since I’ve blogged anything? (Other than the Twitter update stuff).
I guess after celebrating Democrat day (April 15), I was just wiped out. I’m not sure I’ve really recovered enough to start trying to blog daily again, but maybe enough to blog once or twice a week.
What struck me to write tonight is evolution. We took a week’s vacation and traveled to West Tennessee last week, and one of the places we went to was the Pink Palace Museum in Memphis. The place started out as a home built by the original owner of the Piggly Wiggly chain of supermarkets, Clarance Saunders. The city of Memphis ended up with the property when Saunders went broke.
The museum is visited by numerous school children on official school field trips. One of the exhibits in the museum is on evolution. Strangely enough, there are no exhibits about religion, even though there’s a featured exhibit of the Cultural History of the Mid-South. One would think that religion would have played a very large part of that history, but apparently the curators at the Pink Palace are atheists.
Be that as it may, you might get the impression that I’m one of those folks who don’t believe in evolution, and you’d be wrong. I don’t see any conflict between religion (at least the Christian version of religion) and the theory of evolution, and I don’t understand the animosity both sides have for the other.
I think there’s enough scientific evidence that shows life on Earth has evolved; I don’t really see how that can be disputed. But evolution doesn’t start until after life begins. The theory of evolution doesn’t explain where that initial mass of cells came from.
Religion does. We know that God created Man, but we don’t know how long that took (who knows how long a “day” was when the Earth began?).
So I don’t think Religion and evolution are mutually exclusive; they actually complement each other.
