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Hey Dan. How's it hangin? I hope you're not being too tempted by the forbidden fruits of knowledge here at Salon.
So you said, "But evolution is not science. Neither is archeology and much of astronomy." I seem to recall a couple of fellows named Galileo and Copernicus (early astronomers perhaps?) that got into trouble with the church for saying things like the earth is not the center of the universe. The reason the church had a problem with these radicals (probably liberals) is because their crazy scientific theories contradicted many parts of the bible like below:
Psalm 93:1, Psalm 96:10, and Chronicles 16:30 state that "the world is firmly established, it cannot be moved." Psalm 104:5 says, "[the LORD] set the earth on its foundations; it can never be moved." Ecclesiastes 1:5 states that "the sun rises and the sun sets, and hurries back to where it rises."
Now I don't want to be the one to pee in your garden of Eden, but it seems to me that the bible got this one wrong. And if the bible is wrong about the earth being the center of the universe, there's a good chance that the bible just might be wrong on the whole evolution thing as well. When it comes to science, the church always seems to be about 400 years behind.
