I think there are things to learn from both Bronze Age stories and Enlightenment thinking--old and warn out as they both have become. I don't like the old stumps or sticks in the mud that much of that has become. Creation Vs. Evolution? What team am I routing for? Please, come on, impress me with a better question than that. I'm not in Junior High School anymore.
To me, as long as scientific knowledge remains fluid and not set in stone then progress occurs. I remain happy. When new fossils turn up, when dating methods are refined, when new facts are pooled, then I can know our past in a more defined way. Ask me tomorrow. Ask me about the past but know that I know it only at my present knowledge level, and nothing more. I am not a Superman.
New DNA research is proving useful, though. This along with the fossil record is becoming very insightful and exciting. But let's not get in a hurry, let's not throw out the Bronze and Enlightenment thinkers of the past so easily-- those poor fellows-- they just didn't have the tools available that we now possess. Kudos to them, they did their best. Those long ago investigators do give us a glimpse, however, at how primitive writers thought, and that can be valuable, as well, in learning about our past.
Other links:
Kenneth Miller on Evolution and Intelligent Design
Kevin Padian Investigating Evolution
New DNA research is proving useful, though. This along with the fossil record is becoming very insightful and exciting. But let's not get in a hurry, let's not throw out the Bronze and Enlightenment thinkers of the past so easily-- those poor fellows-- they just didn't have the tools available that we now possess. Kudos to them, they did their best. Those long ago investigators do give us a glimpse, however, at how primitive writers thought, and that can be valuable, as well, in learning about our past.
Other links:
Kenneth Miller on Evolution and Intelligent Design
Kevin Padian Investigating Evolution
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