re: #28 Lidane

Yeah, this.

Also, you’d think that an omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient God wouldn’t be threatened by evolution or by it being taught in the classroom. Why would a being that supposedly has infinite power, infinite knowledge, and can be anywhere and everywhere have to be coddled and defended?

You’d think that God would be made of sterner stuff than all that, and could handle evolution and Charles Darwin being taught to children.

Had a good discussion with my son today about how physics, biology & especially evolution were the tools by which God has chosen to run the universe and that to deny science is a form of blasphemy.

Teaching him to avoid biblical literalism is a bit harder at this age (10), but showing the metaphors and other literary constructs in the stories told in the bible have helped.