Evolution versus Intelligent Design

Evolution versus Intelligent Design…

What difference does it make anyway?

It don’t…which makes it just as much a hot topic amongst the regular grade scholars as well as us intellectuals.

Biblically speaking, here’s my revelation.

What if evolution is part of the intelligent design?

Let’s not stop with evolution. We might as well go on and mosh the “big bang” theory in there to boot. Somebody had to light the fuse, didn’t they?

Besides, I’ve always been a little suspicious about the term, “intelligent design” anyway, haven’t you?

Didn’t God say that he made man in his image?

Judging by the health of the arguments made by the folks sittin’ on both benches of this debate, God might not be as smart as we think He is…

Either that or some of His “images” done the “designing” after the fact and pinned the blame on Him.

Something else, I’m not aiming to be disrespectful to the Almighty, but I don't believe for one second that God created everything in a week.

It’s not a case of, “How could He?”

I reckon that anybody important enough to sport a capital pronoun right in the middle of a sentence can do anything He wants!

No…”Why would He?” is the thing.

God invented time! If He found Himself running a little short, He could just whip up another batch.

There ain’t no alarm clocks in heaven!

I bet God takes a couple of million years just to read the sports section of The New York Times… on a weekday!

And another thing I know for sure. God never intended for the Bible to be an account of the history of the world.

He had to leave something for man to lie about.

But the Book of Genesis is fodder for the greatest debate. And, if you want to pick an argument with the Bible, you have to start with Genesis.

Think about it. For a book that ain’t got but fifty pages, Genesis covers a lot of ground, from the creation of everything living or dead in the infinite universe, to populating the Middle East and trying to drive the Israelis out of town. (Big mistake… You’d a thought they’d a found somebody a little bit easier to tackle than God’s chosen people?)

Here’s the thing…

When God told Adam and Eve to, “be fruitful and multiply”…they took him seriously and commenced to begat like crazy through about ten more chapters. And when they petered out, the fruits of their labor continued the tradition until they had fertilized a crescent and made a mess of Potamia doing it.

The word,”no” hadn’t made an appearance yet. (Noah’s wife finally invented it when her hubby insisted on going back to get that pair of flies he forgot.)

Men was even still asking their wives for directions! “I’m lost honey. Do you know the way to Cairo?”

Well, even though it’s been rumored for thousands of years, it took Einstein and his theory of relativity to actually prove we was all kin for sure.

So there you go! The “evolution” folks, and the “intelligent design” folks doing all the arguing might as well seek some common ground…because…no good ever come with fighting amongst family!

But, that’s just my opinion.


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