re: #405 Sharmuta

I just wanted to thank you for putting up with my questions a little while ago and providing the responses, along with others, that helped me understand the situation. I imagine mine were the same naive questions raised hundreds of times; but it is the act of having an actual rational dialog with someone that helps sort fact from fiction.

I have read this site for a couple years and finally got registered recently. I read a lot of the prior postings, but the scope and forced agenda of the creationists still never sank in until I asked my own “dumb” questions and made my own naive comments regarding the situation. The feedback I received enabled me to rationalize the threat for myself.

The summary I now understand:
- ID=creationists, both are religious and neither are scientific
- Evolution is a heavily substantiated scientific theory (would probably be a law if there weren’t so many variables and uncertainty factors making universal equations difficult)
- Belief in a creator and the scientific theory of evolution are compatible; there are several major religions that do indeed support evolution
- Supporting any laws or regulations that put forth religious positions as public government positions is not conservative nor American
- Religious and non-religious can share political agendas, but it really helps if we keep the same separations in place as in our country’s governing documents