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Fwd: Sunday church news

I want to thank all of the list members who graciously sent me info and 
websites that thoroughly address the issue of creationism v. evolution.  

Should you like to get involved or just learn more about the subject you 
might look at these three excellent sites:

www.talkorigins.org
www.csun.edu/~vcgeo005/creation.html
www.natcenscied.org

And dear reader Jeanne, now freezing Alaska, sent along the following 
copywritten Washington Post material which will serve to end this sermon on a 
high note.

Best regards,

Kevin Kichinka

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Hello Kevin.

After reading your post, it seemed like you'd appreciate this.  I got it a
while ago and forwarded it to several friends but didn't think it would be
appropriate for the meteorite list.  But since you brought it up...... ; )

Hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

Regards, 
Jeanne


>  This column appeared in the Washington Post this morning...
> 
>  And God Said, Let There Be Light in Kansas
>  By Gene Weingarten
>  Washington Post Staff Writer
>  Saturday, August 14, 1999; Page C01
> 
>  Memo to: The members of the Kansas Board of Education
> 
>  From: God
> 
>  Re: Your decision to eliminate the teaching of evolution as science.
> 
> 
>  Thank you for your support. Much obliged.
> 
>  Now, go forth and multiply. Beget many children. And yea, your children
> 
> shall beget children. And their children shall beget children, and their
> 
> children's children after them. And in time the genes that have made you
> such
> pinheads will be eliminated through natural selection. Because that is
> how it
> works.
> 
>  Listen, I love all my creatures equally, and gave each his own special
>  qualities to help him on Earth. The horse I gave great strength. The
> antelope I gave great grace and speed. The dung beetle I gave great
> stupidity, so he doesn't realize he is a dung beetle. Man I gave a
> brain.
> 
>  Use it, okay?
> 
>  I admit I am not perfect. I've made errors. (Armpit hair--what was I
>  thinking?) But do you Kansans seriously believe that I dropped
>  half-a-billion-year-old trilobite skeletons all over my great green
> Earth
> by mistake?
> What, I had a few lying around some previous creation in the
> Andromeda galaxy, and they fell through a hole in my pocket?
> 
>  You were supposed to find them. And once you found them, you were
> supposed
> to draw the appropriate, intelligent conclusions. That's what I made you
> for.
> To think.
> 
>  The folks who wrote the Bible were smart and good people. Mostly, they
> got
> it right. But there were glitches. Imprecisions. For one thing, they
> said
> that Adam and Eve begat Cain and Abel, and then Cain begat Enoch. How
> was that
> supposed to have happened?
> 
> They left out Tiffany entirely!
> 
>  Well, they also were a little off on certain elements of timing and
> sequence.
> 
>  So what?
> 
>  You guys were supposed to figure it all out for yourselves, anyway.
> When
> you stumble over the truth, you are not supposed to pick yourself up,
> dust
>  yourself off and proceed on as though nothing had happened. If you find
> a
>  dinosaur's toe, you're not supposed to look for reasons to call it a
>  croissant. You're not big, drooling idiots.
> For that, I made dogs.
> 
>  Why do you think there are no fossilized human toes dating from a
> hundred
>  million years ago? Think about it.
> 
>  It's okay if you think. In fact, I prefer it. That's why I like Charlie
> 
>  Darwin. He was always a thinker. Still is. He and I chat frequently.
> 
>  I know a lot of people figure that if man evolved from other organisms,
> it
>  means I don't exist. I have to admit this is a reasonable assumption
> and a
>  valid line of thought. I am in favor of thought. I encourage you to
> pursue
>  this concept with an open mind, and see where it leads you.
> 
>  That's all I have to say right now, except that I'm really cheesed off
> at
>  laugh tracks on sitcoms, and the NRA, and people who make simple
> declarative sentences sound like questions?
> 
>  Oh, wait. There's one more thing.
> 
>  Did you read in the newspapers yesterday how scientists in Australia
> dug
> up some rocks and found fossilized remains of life dating back further
> than
> ever before? Primitive, multicelled animals on Earth nearly 3 billion
> years
> ago, when the planet was nothing but roiling muck and ice and fire. And
> inside those cells was . . . DNA. Incredibly complex strands of
> chemicals,
> laced together in a scheme so sophisticated no one yet understands
> exactly
> how it works.
> 
>  I wonder who could have thought of something like that, back then.
> 
>  Just something to gnaw on.
> 
> 
>  © Copyright 1999 The Washington Post Company
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Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend.
Inside of a dog it is too dark to read.
                                     -Groucho Marx

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