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...Crimson, in its review of the show, advised those who “still take their Eucharist seriously” to avoid the show, at all costs.“It was very lighthearted but took…a purposely literal-minded, child’s viewpoint of the Gospels,” he explains.“The Greatest Musical” was far from the last time that Durang would return to his Catholic upbringing for inspiration. Perhaps most notably, he did it again in 1981’s “Sister Mary Ignatius Explains...
...from the Ooze Michael J. Novacek's Viewpoint [April 17] sustains the old-fashioned belief that biological evolution is incompatible with the idea of a Creator. What makes it so incomprehensible that evolution could be the method that a supernatural Creator has used to bring organisms into being? There is incontrovertible evidence for biological evolution. Why could there not be a God who brought life into being and gave it the ability to evolve by what we call natural selection? We have to just log our observations and continue the search for explanations without boxing ourselves into one particular viewpoint...
...Creator. Is it so incomprehensible that a Creator used evolution to bring organisms into being? There is incontrovertible evidence for biological evolution. Why couldn't a God have created life and enabled it to evolve by what we call natural selection? We must not box ourselves into one viewpoint...
...fishapod article and accompanying Viewpoint used straw-man arguments in an attempt to discredit intelligent design and creationism. They even went so far as to insinuate that without a belief in amoebas-to-man evolution, we are doomed to succumb to a pandemic. Nonsense! One doesn't need to believe in unobservable and unrepeatable macroevolution to have a working knowledge of genetics. Creationists and proponents of intelligent design are quite at home with the concepts of Mendelian variation within species and natural selection. They simply object to wild extrapolations beyond observable limits of genetic variability. Don't hide behind...
...Moral Level. Ironically, some of the loudest cries that the H-bomb should be abandoned on moral grounds, that even experiments with it should be stopped, came from those groups most affected by the rationalist or scientific-as distinguished from the traditional and religious-viewpoint. The basis of modern rationalist morality is largely statistical (see Dr. Kinsey), and the difference between the effect of the H-bomb and other weapons is also statistical, quantitative...