TurquoiseB wrote:

>--- In [email protected], Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  
>
>>This reminds me of this whole "intelligent design" crap that is going on 
>>and the White House dimbo is promoting.  I have a way of making it 
>>backfire on them as we can agree that "no, an amoeba did not create life 
>>on the planet.  It was just a step along the way.  There is an 
>>intelligence that underlies all of creation which can be observed 
>>through physics.  Yes, you are right the world was created in six days.  
>>Six "God" days however and I believe if we take the length in human 
>>years of one day of Brahma the Creator in Indian philosophy we get the 
>>beginning of creation coinciding with the Big Bang."
>>
>>I called this explanation in on a small town radio talk show in the 
>>1980's that was discussing creationism.  It sort of left them 
>>dumbfounded. ;-)
>>    
>>
>
>It still doesn't convince the fundamentalists who believe
>in a literal translation of the Bible.  Clarence Darrow used 
>exactly this argument in the Scopes trial.  He even got 
>William Jennings Bryan to *agree* on the stand that the
>"days" referred to in Genesis could possibly be eras or
>longer periods.  His testimony was excised from the record
>and Darrow lost the case and all the fundamentalists lived
>happily thereafter.  For awhile.
>  
>
That's okay we'll just take baseball bats and knock some sense into 
their heads.  :)



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