Steven Jay Gould is the author of the essay, "Genesis vs. Geology". There is a great debate over the idea of the Genesis flood. It is being argued that the geological facts may be proof that no such event could have been possible. Not only are there scientists trying to discover whether the flood happened but there are fundamentalists searching for the same answers. Along with the debate over Genesis, there's also the debate about evolution and creationism. How does anyone really know which idea is the correct one? Many people gather information and then decide what their personal opinion is. A person should be able to decide for themselves where they stand in any debate, including the one about evolution vs. creationism.
Gould's argument is that evolution, not creationism, should be taught in public schools. He feels that evolution is science and creationism is religion, therefore evolution belongs in the public schools' curriculum.
The Creation of Adam
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Geo. Gould & family at Helen's wedding (LOC)As well as giving his own opinion and understanding about evolution vs. creationism, Gould gives examples of other important people's beliefs about this debate. Among those included in his essay are John Whitcomb and Henry Morris, who wrote the document, The Genesis Flood. Their thought is that a giant cover of water vapor surrounded the earth, but they couldn't come up with an explanation as to how this cover got there. Whitcomb and Morris believe that the water, rising from underground, combined with the raining of the cover of water vapor in the sky, would have produced enough water to explain Noah's worldwide flood. After coming to that conclusion Whitcomb and Morris again found that they could not explain what triggered the water to start falling once it was in the giant cover over the earth. They decide that because God put the water up...
The Great Flood....
Yeah. Put that fairytale in schools. Explain where all the water evaporated to after 40 days of rain. Or how penguins and kangaroos managed to make it all the way from the oposite end of the earth to get to Palestine to board a BIG boat. What did they all eat? All the animals finally get to leave the ark. So what did they eat?
Explain the irony in that no sooner does Noah finally accomplish his task of saving every type of animal on the face of the planet than he then sacrifices every clean beast, and of every clean fowl. Given vi.19-20 states that Noah collected simply two of every animal on earth, does that not rather defeat the whole point of rescuing them in the first place if he is then expected to cause their very extinction?
Explain too how Yahweh killed every human on earth including innocent children after arbitrarily choosing to save four people. How can such a God be considered anything other than evil? It is like setting fire to your block of flats to get rid of cockroaches!
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