Christian Churches Celebrate Darwin's Birthday

kthejoker writes "Today is the 197th anniversary of the great biologist Charles Darwin's birth. In response, some 450 Christian churches are celebrating Darwin's birth, saying, 'Darwin`s theory of biological evolution is compatible with faith and that Christians have no need to choose between religion and science.' There's also an interesting perspective on Darwinism and Christianity in the San Jose Mercury News."

Comments

Doonesbury?

[Pi_0's don't shower]

This somehow reminds me of a man going to the Doctor's office:

Doc: Well, I'm afraid you have tuberculosis. I need to know, are you a creationist?
Patient: What does that have to do with anything?
D: Well, I could give you the drugs that would cure Tuberculosis as it was discovered in 1937, or the modern drugs that treat the disease as it has evolved into today.
P: What's so great about the modern drugs?
D: They're intelligently designed...

Re:Doonesbury?

[teslar]

This in turn reminds me of a French comic strip I saw years ago somewhere... I tried googling, but couldn't find it... anyway, it had three frames and went like this:

1st frame: A guy is giving a presentation to the reader, with a slide projector screen behind him. He says: "God created Man in His image."

2nd frame: shows the picture of a caveman

3rd frame: Guy says "then man evolved. As for God, we don't know."

I liked it a lot :)

Re:And in other news...

[Anonymous Coward]

How about the idiots who, for example, think Bush is comparable to Hitler?

Of course he's "comparable" to Hitler: It is possible to compare Bush to Hitler: Bush is immensely less charismatic, competent or intelligent than Hitler.

Brought to you by the British campaign to eliminate idiotic American misuse of the word "comparable".

Re:And in other news...

[TallMatthew]

Evolution leading to complex organisms is at least tricky to understand . How about the idiots who, for example, think Bush is comparable to Hitler? That's just as stupid as not believing in evolution, or believing the earth is flat, or whatever. We're surrounded every day by idiots who believe in bizarre things

I believe that Bush is comparable to Hitler, evolution is still an iffy theory (though creationism is ludicrous), the world isn't flat and that you are, quite clearly, an idiot.

How's that for bizarre?

Re:And in other news...

[rjshields]

We're surrounded every day by idiots ... I drive an SUV

Point well made :-)

Holy fuck! Call in the Mythbusters!

[CyricZ]

Can a man live inside of a fish for three days? Was Eve fashioned out of Adam's rib?

Those sound like the kinds of questions that Adam and Jamie, the Mythbusters, need to be called in to answer!

Re:WTF?

[Spy der Mann]

Churches...churches where a Bible is actually *used* will not take this position.

I think you misspelled "abused". :)

Re:And in other news...

[jrockway]

> And how do you know the parent poster is American and not British, Egyptian, or Chinese?

Because his sig says, and I quote, "I drive an SUV -- and I'm actually pretty proud of the fact." :)

Re:Christianity and Microsoft? - Embrace and Exten

[FhnuZoag]

If anything, Christianity is more like Linux:

So when will it be ready for the desktop?

Re:Sigh

[Eightyford]

This matters? Talking about religion is like talking about Star Wars vs. Star Trek - it's completely detached from reality, and only done by pedantic nerds.

Then it is news for nerds.

Re:Happy Birthday Darwin...

[schnitzi]

I have a Flying Spaghetti Monster eating a Jesus fish eating a Darwin fish.