Rodent Regatta

Richard Dawkins has been one of the most vocal critics of anyone claiming Intelligent Design over evolution as a way to explain how all of this came to be.

Now Dick (do you suppose he minds if I call him Dick?) has decided that those who believe as he does should be called ”brights.” Just as our culture has referred to those who practice homosexuality as ”gays,” Dick wants atheists and secularists to be known as ”brights.” He’s written about it for Wired magazine.

First, if you’re uncertain about where you stand on the theory of evolution vs. creation, you might want to consider these books:

• Darwin’s Black Box by Michael Behe
• Intelligent Design by William Dembski
• Darwin On Trial by Phillip E. Johnson
• The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins

>From there, we’re left to decide where this debate fits in the overall culture war that exists in our country today. When I read Dawkins’s books, I find myself thankful that men like him don’t have the courage that the Founders of this country had. We were in no danger of this country being founded as a Godless nation because only those with the courage of their convictions were prepared to fight and die to see those convictions preserved.

Those who now want to lob shots at the Founders’s beliefs and the underpinnings of Christian thought can only hope to remove all mention of God from our public debates. They don’t really have the courage to go found the island of Alecbaldwinia and populate it with people who want a culture they prefer!