Another win for the good guys:
Judge Sarah Evans Barker dismissed a lawsuit filed in May 2023 against Penn-Harris-Madison School Corporation and state education leaders.
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lol
"The atheist religion". lmao
Y'know.... this may surprise both you and Sherlock, but I happen to be a Christian who believes in creation.
But, I'm not stupid. I'll admit straight up, it's a matter of faith, and I have ZERO scientific evidence to back up my claim.
So I don't go "claiming" anything in scientific discussions. Instead I STUDY, in the hope that someday we might be able to find some evidence. Or even form a testable hypothesis.
Trying to challenge evolution is a losing game. And there's a reason they're called creation "myths". (That bit about the rib is especially juicy - "hey, can I borrow a rib?"
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Now my wife on the other hand, is Buddhist. She thinks creation is an irrelevant question. (Because we can't do anything about it, one way or the other). She doesn't understand why the question generates controversy, she ridicules the controversy more than the question itself.
In my view the mysteries are in the fabric of spacetime, everything north of that is pretty cut and dried. I'm a realist, I understand that "if" I believe, everything I'm looking at must be God's handiwork. To believe otherwise would be entirely nonsensical. I look around, see evolution, and say to myself "gee, that must be the way God operates".
I've been ridiculed by lots and lots of Christians, for failing to take the Bible literally. And that's okay. My goal is to get closer to God, not get closer to a book. The book was written by fallible human beings, thousands of years ago when no one had yet heard of atoms, much less quantum superpositions. Some of it is just plain old wrong. There's no requirement to take the book literally, as a matter of fact both Jesus and the ancient Jews warned against it and told us not to.
So, you'll understand my disdain for the arrogance that claims knowledge and understanding of God. That's quite an absurd claim, you don't have to think about it very long.
The flip side of that coin is, I've had plenty of academics tell me about "probability and statistics", and I finally got so annoyed by their bleating I went and studied the stuff. It took me six months to get through a 70 page book on measure theory, so I just start chuckling when people toss up Wikipedia articles as proof of anything. Renyi's topology is so thick you could cut it with a knife, it's not like looking at a fractal in a picture book. If you need a mind blower go look at the topology of space filling curves. Gee, maybe the universe is that way, you know, fills space and all that. Yes, it can be done all at once in parallel. 'All possible paths" are some big words.
But these are personal journeys - if you want to go public with them you need to have your ducks in a row. Do you realize, they just finished translating one of the earliest Babylonian scripts on record, know what's in it? Buncha superstitions from high priests looking for free money. Reading of entrails, stuff like that. A hundred years they spent, trying to translate it. God is a prankster.
