Every nationality seems to have their own true God. No matter what their religion, all religious people believe that their God is the only God. Only the name has changed to protect the religious. Some call their Supreme Being God while others call theirs Allah or Buddha or Pele or some other name. The ancient Greeks had many Gods (no one size fits all there).
Now first off, I believe that man created God in his own image, not the other way around. Even though I was baptized a Catholic, I have been God's little acher for many years and I can't believe all the supposedly intelligent and successful people who seem to check all their intelligence at the church door and accept all that is told to them without any thought or reason except faith.
Not only is the Religious Right taking over the country, we now have our selected president saying that Intelligent Design is a view of creation that challenges established scientific thinking and promotes the idea that an unseen force is behind the development of humanity.
How in the world is faith-based Intelligent Design challenging scientific theory, facts that are as provable as the theory of gravity?
Intelligent Design is not science, it is not even a field of study. It's a belief system. Science has been wrong at times, but when they are, they reevaluate the new data and accommodate this new set of facts which is tested and retested many times before they call it a theory (the scientific definition of a theory is not the same as that of a layman. A theory to a scientist is a set of provable facts that have been tested against all other data and still holds true). The believers in Intelligent Design have never been troubled by any additional facts. They never change their minds based on new evidence. They base all their beliefs on faith.
How can anyone believe there is a Supreme Being who watches over each and everyone of the six and a half billion people in the world; listens to every prayer and really cares who wins a football game?
Not me, but then I am --
The California Curmudgeon
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