[Xantar]

I don't really understand why some Christians (note: I said some Christians) feel some kind of need to have their religion explain the physical facts of life. Why do the planets circle the sun? Is it because a big mass of cosmic dust had some kind of force acting on it before it all clumped together into the sun and the planets? Or is it because God made it that way? Who knows, but the problem with the debate is that both sides, with sufficient ingenuity, can make everything fit their theory. The fundamentalist says that there is a hole in the theory and that therefore God must be involved. The scientist says that there is a hole in the theory and therefore we need to figure out a new theory. It gets nowhere.

Besides, it never seemed to me that Abrahamic religions were really very concerned with explaining the ways of the world. By their very nature, science is concerned with explaining this world that we know and religion is concerned with the other world that we can never know. The two just have nothing to do with each other. Whenever a debate like this pops up, I always wonder What Would Jesus Do. In other words, if Jesus were to suddenly walk the earth again and look around, what would his sermon be?

Would it be something to the effect of, "We have too much cruelty and lack of compassion towards our fellow man. Our lives are made poor by our pursuit of material wealth. We need to discover our spirituality and humanity again."

Or would Jesus say, "Our world is a terrible place because we believe that the world is 6 billion years old instead of 10,000"?

Somehow, I just think Jesus would find better things to talk about.