Also, in case you missed it...

[dwenius]

The Pope recently published a book in which he comes out strongly against evolution, saying in part:

"But it is also true that the theory of evolution is not a complete, scientifically proven theory." Benedict added that the immense time span that evolution covers made it impossible to conduct experiments in a controlled environment to finally verify or disprove the theory. "We cannot haul 10,000 generations into the laboratory," he said.

He offered no explanation for why God would choose to deny to mankind the same biological advantages He apparently saw fit to give to drug-resistant viruses, pesticide-immune insects, or other sundry beasts.

Comments

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

It's a TEST. God is TESTING US. That's why he wants REPRESSED MEN as PRIESTS.

[tritone.livejournal.com]

To be fair--not that anyone should be fair to the ID types--I believe their argument isn't that evolution/natural selection/etc. doesn't exist; it's that unguided evolution isn't good enough to produce something as complex as a human in the amount of time scientists believe it did.

[ex-askesis860.livejournal.com]

The argument I've seen most often forces a split between "micro-evolution" and "macro-evolution." If backed into a corner with 50 years of data supporting the notion that allele frequencies change over time, your Creationist will claim that's micro-evolution, which is an interesting phenomenon but insufficient to make speciation happen.

Apparently we get much higher-grade crazy down here in the South.