Monday, November 14, 2005

Vengeance is God's

I spent a few hours in the lab on Friday, figuring out what I needed to do and processing some bacterial cultures for protein gel electrophoresis. While there, my seventh-day adventist lab friend HC wondered if I had heard about Pat Robertson's statement and we got into a little conversation about it...
Basically, some pro-intelligent design school board members were not re-elected in the town of Dover, PA. Quoting from the previously-linked webpage:

"The board ordered schools to read students a short statement in biology classes informing them that the theory of evolution is not established fact and that gaps exist in it."

Because the town did not re-elect these board members, Robertson told the town that they should not be surprised if a disaster comes to their town; and that if it does they should not call on God "because he might not be there."

Now, I believe an intelligent being (God, = Jesus Christ) created the world, and I do not believe that nontheistic evolution is logical. Public schools should present both evolution and creation as optional theories of world formation.
However, Robertson's statements do not express much in the way of Christian love. "You guys won't consider the theistic viewpoint, so God is going to punish you. And if you turn to him, he will leave you to your misery because he doesn't love you anymore." How about leaving the vengeance up to God? And where did the grace go?

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