I've seen a few miracles like Eddy and I'm always impressed with the power of faith. What amazes me is that for some people, it's not enough. They want their faith to also be a science. They call it Creationism. And I think it ironic that Creationism has its roots in farm country.
I grew up in the Midwest and I make no claims to be a cow expert but I can say from personal experience that cows are dumb. Oh, it's not their fault. Humans breed cows to be stupid. The last thing you want as you are leading the cow into the slaughterhouse is a moment of inspiration on the part of the cow.
The original God made cow was smarter than that. It was called an Aurochs (R-rocks). Darwin didn't name it that. Farmers and hunters did, and they painted pictures of Aurochs on cave walls seven thousand years ago. It was Aurochs that pulled the plows of Babylon. And it was Aurochs that were slaughtered to feed the armies of Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar. The last pure bred Aurochs was killed by a poacher in Poland in 1627. That was a long time ago, but it was well after the flood.
The Angus, the Ankole Watusi, The Belgian Blue, The British White, the Cash, the Devon, the Normande, The Norwegian Red, The Red Angus, The Red Brangus, the Scotch Highlander, the Texas Longhorn, the White Park and the Zebu,(to name a few) were all bred from Aurochs by people who never read Mendel, because he hadn't yet been born. They wouldn't have known Darwin if he had owed them money. But they knew what every breeder knows: If you take a cow with lots of beef on her and breed her with a bull who's mother had lots of beef on her, their offspring will probably be even beefier.
This ain't rocket science. It's humans tinkering with the mechanics of evolution; from slime to Einstein in a short four billion years.
Evolution is officially called a theory; which seems like a silly way to refer to a science which supports and is supported by several entire fields of science, such as Geology, Biology (both molecular and genetic), paleontology, chemistry, nuclear physics and most recently, astronomy. The entire petrochemical industry spends billions of dollars every year using this "theory" to find oil. And they have for the last sixty years or so.
Creationism seems, in comparison, like a bridge from nowhere to nowhere. It stands alone, isolated, unconnected with any other field of science: it can neither use nor confirm what those fields have taught us, nor add to the understanding of those fields. Which, by definition, means that creationism does NOT function as a science.
And at the other end of the bridge, Creationism doesn't seem to function as faith, either. In fact it seems to deny the very concept and purpose of faith. If you do not have faith then all the evidence in creation will not convince you; nor should it. Because to have faith means no evidence is required. And to require evidence means there is no faith.
Science, then, is only what you know. Facts. Data. Evidence. Science can be disproved. Argued about. Debunked. It requires logic, passion, discipline, hubris and skepticism.
Faith can not be disproved or denied. Faith is what you believe. All that you believe. It requires courage and humility.
I don't mean to imply that faith and science are equal. They are not. Evolution never turned a bad kid around. It never comforted the parents of an injured child. It never guided a tortured soul to peace.
And I can't figure out why so many people want something as noble as faith to be as humble as science.
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