Creationist, Intelligent Design, Scientist... Can't we all just get along?

I know a Missouri Synod Lutheran, and they apparently believe in the 7 day
account of creation in the Bible.

I am of course an advocate of
Intelligent Design, since with eyes wide open, God's design and power and
presence is obvious.

And Scientists? They are just looking at their
scientific realm. Like the design of a water faucet, they are not talking about
God, just science.

The rub seems to be when they refuse to talk about God. Some Intelligent Design
folks don't like the "randomness" of the scientists explanation. So what?
Leave
them to their craft, and leave us believers to our God. Believers will
see God
in all the scientific explanations, and non-believers won't.

It may be
that atheists are proud of the fact that science does not
address itself to
positive belief in God. But they have nothing to be proud
of. Science is not
religion class. If we are worried about how our children
will learn religion, we
just have to teach them about God before they get to
science class, and all will
be well.

I admit that Creationists are a
different case. Their literal
Biblical reading couldn't be farther apart
from what science is telling us.
I would suggest that when Creationist
parents are asked by their kids why
science does not support the 7 day
creation account, the parents simply answer
"I don't know". That is what the
following account of a Nobel laureate scientist
also says... "It will always
come down to something you can't answer".

We can't expect science to
teach religion. But we know that when the
scientist can not answer the
ultimate question of our origins ..

"At
some point, when we
understand the Big Bang theory and the origins of the
universe, it will be
based on an equation that explains it. But we'll never know
where the
mechanism of that equation came from."

...That the scientist is
talking
about the person we call God.
Lederman, 83, shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in
physics for his work with neutrinos, among the fundamental particles of the
universe. Lederman, who lives in Chicago, is director emeritus of the Fermi
National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois and a former professor at Columbia
University. For 20 years, he has been one of the nation's leading voices for
improved science education.

Q: Why do you object to teaching creationism?

A: We live in a rational world, which operates on scientific principles. Successful societies are scientific; the others are pre-scientific. Countries where there is constant poverty, terrorism, warfare and religious fundamentalism never do science. If (the effort to teach creationism) continues, we'll have kids who don't know biology, don't know science, don't know evolution, and we'll be a Third World country.

Q: Can one believe in God and science?

A: If you believe in science, you're going to have to weaken your belief in miracles, but it doesn't mean you can't believe in a creator. At some point, when we understand the Big Bang theory and the origins of the universe, it will be based on an equation that explains it. But we'll never know where the mechanism of that equation came from. It will always come down to something you can't answer.

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