re: #153 quickjustice

I don’t think Limbaugh is a careful student of evolution or of creationism. His “creationism”, distinguishing between micro-evolution and macro-evolution, is half-assed. That’s a way of saying, “I believe in evolution, but I also believe in G-d”. It’s an inartful straddle. I’m in the same position, but I don’t buy into the discredited “micro” versus “macro” evolution. I think evolution a wonder. I don’t think it evidence that G-d doesn’t exist. I think there’s a lot that human minds cannot grasp.

Science is a perpetual argument about what’s empirically demonstrable, and what the scientific evidence means. Religion is belief in G-d, which isn’t empirically demonstrable using scientific methods. It’s the difference between physics and metaphysics.

One of the more successful lies of the religious right is convincing many people that accepting scientic proof is the the same thing as rejecting G-d. It is presented as an either/or proposition. This is false. You can believe in a creator - who did things in a certain way that we are blessed enough to figure out to some extent.