[Buddha-l] Fighting creationism

[SJZiobro at cs.com]

In a message dated 4/1/2007 2:51:28 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
stefan.detrez at gmail.com writes: 
> I still wonder why religious thought should be treated as untouchable for 
> critique, 'because it's religious thought'. We have already come so far that 
> we wonder whether there is room for creationism to count as a scientific 
> theory. 

I think, Stephan, that the real issue lies in the moral sphere, not the 
sphere of ideas.  The various ideas related to some form of creation can be and are 
coherent, cogent, and for very many, evidently concincing.  For instance, the 
that there must be a point (outside of time) where what was not came into 
being on account of a transcendent Cause that is not one thing among others is 
entirely reasonable when contrasted with the idea of an infinite regress.  One 
can conceive analoguous or parallel arguments with notions of time and motion.  
Atheists, who naturally seek other explanations, cannot accept any form of 
creation in the strict sense and remain atheists.  Hence, even if they should 
concede a rationale for creation being reasonable, nonetheless, they will reject 
the idea on a moral ground.  Unfortunately, they also apparently will not 
allow others to teach anything contrary to what they presently hold as the status 
quo in the schools.  Such notions of freedom of thought, speech, etc. are 
then summarily quashed and anything having to do with an argument for a creation 
is in some form or other presented as a surd.

Regards,

Stan Ziobro   
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