The wind of change is blowing through the landscape, yes, the religious landscape.  Some years ago the Catholic church official endorsed the Theory of Evolution as having the best explanatory power for explaining the diversity of life on the planet, including human life.

I am sure memories of the persecution of Galileo in the 17th century most have played on their minds, and it was felt the match of scientific progress most not be impeded by religious dogmatism.

However, to say that TTE is not incompatible with Christian (or Catholic) doctrine is not to say that it is.  The Catholic have yet to explain where this leaves the following core parts of the faith;

1) Original sin
2) God's curse on humans
3) The Genesis Accounts
4) Noah's flood

As these difficulties persist, I am sure they will eventually die out the way all superstitions do.


The Anglican Church too, has remarkably declared it intention of issuing a public apology to Charles Darwin, following its official endorsement of TTE.  It too, will have to come up with some interpretational gymnastics to explain away the Genesis accounts.

Now, the bastion of darkness and superstition remains the Christian Evangelical Movement (Fundamentalism) which is digging its dirty heels deep in the cesspit of creationism and biblical literalism.  Despite the fact that evolution is well attested like the nose on our faces, they continue to peddle this brand of mythology from the infancy of humanity.

In modern times, a new breed of creationist have come about, the Intelligent Design Theorists.  To call it a theory is to dignify their ideas.  There is nothing as intellectually bankrupt as ID and this has been proven in several law courts in America.  The ID proponents want to compel the teaching of creationism as science in American schools, despite the fact that there is simply zero body of science data in support of ID.

ID'iots speak in one voice (religious undertones), to their usually scientifically ignorant and illiterate audience and with pseudo-scientific voice to the general public.  Well, such subtefurge have been realised many a times, to the chargrin of their supports.

The creationist, ID'ers glory in preserving their flock in such ignorance and the flock likewise wallow in the cesspool of ignorance. Such scientific ignorant zealotry is dangerous for our civilisation.  Despite the fact that principles based on  TTE hold great promise for staggering therapies, creationist continue to oppose all such advances in human understanding.

The irony is that some of the most prominent advocates for TTE are themselves theists, notably;

Kenneth Miller
Francis Collins
Daniel Fairbanks
Francisco Ayala
Theodosius Dobzhansky
Simon Conway Morris
etc
etc

These are great spokemen for TTE and a new theology called theistic evolution.

What alarms me more is the plight of africa.  With  a relatively low level of scientific literacy, and few public advocates for science, the fast spread of Christian fundamentalism will render the unsuspecting African resistant to the adoptions of TTE and all its consequent benefits.  When killer diseases such as AIDS, Ebola, Bird Flu, Malaria parasite etc undergo mutations and evolve into more resistant organisms, the African will be left at a lost, or dependent on cures from other countries where such opposition to TTE is minimal.  At this rate, the majority of Africans will be left in perpetual intellectual infancy, thanks to their uncritical attachment to barbaric mythologies from the Middle East.

It is about time we wake up from this long intellectual slumber induced by Christian fundamentalism.

i think u should go check ur blood pressure now,cos with the way u r acting,i wouldnt be surprised it it has skyrocketed