Sunday, December 12, 2010

Do SDAs Believe In Evolution?

I was raised a Seventh-Day Adventist to not believe in evolution. Then, as I moved through my teens, I learned about divine direction of evolution. Sure, we evolved, but God oversaw everything.

Chaim Amalek emails: Why pick on 7DA? Torah Jews (see Luke's Monday evening chats) do not believe in evolution; Baptists don't believe in evolution; Sarah Palin's church does not believe in evolution; the Jihadis don't believe in evolution, etc.

In other news, I saw a story today somewhere on the web that reports that scientists, by which I mean hard scientists, not social scientist who likely would skew things further, are overwhelmingly Democrats, with maybe 7% belonging to the Creationism friendly Republican Party. Now there's a social divide we need to discuss further. Is the Republican Party to be the Party of God, and the Democratic Party the Party of Science?

Fred, on which side are America's patent lawyers?

Fred emails: America's patent lawyers have engineering and/or science backgrounds, so by and large I doubt one would find many creationist patent lawyers.
I suppose the Republican party has started to become the party of religion and anti-science, while the democratic party is more science friendly.
This does not bode well for America.