creationism/intelligent design

The University of Notre Dame had cause for its anxiety leading up to last week’s big debate between the New Atheist polemicist Sam Harris and the evangelical philosopher William Lane Craig. It’s said that all publicity is good publicity, but one needn’t strain too hard to find an exception—least of all in the history of God debates.

First they came for our Aqua Net…

Creationists still fighting evolution 86 years after Scopes monkey trial.

So the Ark Park (built with the aid of Kentucky taxpayers) won’t discriminate?

Six years after a devastating court case, the neo-creationist think tank is still trying to put its panda thumb in the dike.

Bills aim to portray refusal to teach creationism as “discrimination.”

Like Glenn Beck invoking the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.

Meanwhile, creationist bills introduced in five other states.

Prepare to believe… that they would hire divorcees or Muslims.

The church, in its ignorance of and hostility to evolution, is passing up one of its greatest opportunities to apprehend the very God it claims to represent. This irony is due to a terrible case of what may be called “small-god-ism” and is, unfortunately, encouraged by much popular theology. This theology makes claims about scripture and church practice that reduce God to a cheerleader, or a cosmic vending machine, or some domesticated and pale image of our own confused selves.