In a message dated 96-04-04 13:37:24 EST, Jup wrote:
>Sigh. Actually, they tried to get it made into law that it could only be
>taught as a theory, not a fact.
Actually, I do not see how it can be taught as "fact", because unless
someone was there to witness man's "evolution" from a single-celled organism,
and to my knowledge no one was, it has not been proven to be a fact. There
is no irrefutable proof, so far as I have seen or heard, for or against the
"Theory of Evolution". As a matter of fact, in all scholarly papers on the
subject that I have ever read, it has always been called the "Theory of
Evolution". How can this then be taught as a "fact".
In an effort to bring this posting back to literature, I noticed one
facet of _Memnoch the Devil_ which interested me. Lestat, who had come to
believe that no Devil or God existed, was taken by the Devil so that he might
try to persuade Lestat to work for him. Memnoch then explained that his
difference with God, in the beginning, at least in the story, was that God
had allowed man to evolve from the other forms of life without making
provisions for their souls. I would be interested in knowing of any other
novels or series that deals with evolution as a part of God's plan for the
universe, or in which man finds the secret to creation. In Piers Anthony's
"Ghost", this was dealt with obliquely, and I would like to hear of other
novels of this type.
Hank Gay
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