With a recent internal dispute over an academic reverend's pro-Creationism stance disturbing the harmony of the Royal Society, I decided to have a look at what religious websites were saying on the subject.
I didn't get past the first one (run by the United Church of God) because in defence of Creationism it actually quoted at length a deceased, former card-carry member of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nazi), member of the Waffen SS and user of concerntration camp slave labour.
Now how can a bloke take seriously any argument that holds up Werner von Braun as a pattern card of ethical and reasoned debate?
Here is Reverend Prof Michael Reiss' article of September 11, which certainly upset the National Secular Society as well.
Before we all start to hoot at the folly of others Over There, remember this article from The Age in 2005?
"The controversial theory of "intelligent design" has won the qualified backing of Education Minister Brendan Nelson, who says it should be taught in schools alongside evolution if that is the wish of parents.
Intelligent design, which is damned by critics as a front for biblical Creationism, argues that life on Earth is too complex to have evolved purely through Darwin's theory of natural selection. Dr Nelson said yesterday he had met Campus Crusade for Christ, the Australian advocates of intelligent design, or ID, and watched their DVD presentation, called Unlocking the Mystery of Life."
Intelligent design, which is damned by critics as a front for biblical Creationism, argues that life on Earth is too complex to have evolved purely through Darwin's theory of natural selection. Dr Nelson said yesterday he had met Campus Crusade for Christ, the Australian advocates of intelligent design, or ID, and watched their DVD presentation, called Unlocking the Mystery of Life."
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