This discussion brings to mind a long-ago visit I had with my best friend who at that time was in his third year of an orthopedic surgery residency. I came in through the back door of the hospital at about 2 am and he was in the residency room. He picked up a book of gorgeous drawings of the hand including cutaways, layered drawings and told me, as I remember: I am a rational being. I like to think of myself as working in science. Evolution seems to be as plain as day. Except, when I see how intricate and beautiful are the workings of this hand, its difficult for me to fathom how this could have come about randomly. It has to be the work of something bigger.
Like him it is easy for me to accept evolution because of its empirical, scientific foundation (and I do) and to see creationism as a belief. Yet my friend's observation is, to me, one of the reasons why so many "learned" folks still maintain a belief in G-d or some sort of higher being.
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This discussion brings to mind a long-ago visit I had with my best friend who at that time was in his third year of an orthopedic surgery residency. I came in through the back door of the hospital at about 2 am and he was in the residency room. He picked up a book of gorgeous drawings of the hand including cutaways, layered drawings and told me, as I remember: I am a rational being. I like to think of myself as working in science. Evolution seems to be as plain as day. Except, when I see how intricate and beautiful are the workings of this hand, its difficult for me to fathom how this could have come about randomly. It has to be the work of something bigger. Like him it is easy for me to accept evolution because of its empirical, scientific foundation (and I do) and to see creationism as a belief. Yet my friend's observation is, to me, one of the reasons why so many "learned" folks still maintain a belief in G-d or some sort of higher being.