Re: Fossil Man again

Dave Probert (probert@cs.ucsb.edu)
Thu, 14 Sep 1995 08:31:58 -0700

> You have spent a life time teaching your child that the Bible is
> true. They believe what you believe, that man is a recent addition to the
> surface of the earth; he did not evolve and fossil man is some soul-less
> being or a postflood or preflood human.. So far so good. You have passed
> your beliefs on to your child.

Something similar *did* happen to me. I was raised baptist, but attended
public schools and had a *major* interest in science. When I went to college
I joined a non-denominational church, where one day the pastor preached
on evolution vs creation. During his sermon I had an epiphany. I recognized
that I had come to tacitly accept what `science' said about origins without
questioning it, and that `science' had betrayed that trust by so greatly
misrepresenting the situation.

I am still fascinated by the universe, and very interested in what
observations science has to make about it, but that day
a healthy distrust of `science' was born in me, and I have never
completely trusted science's interpretation of the data since.

--Dave