Comment on Student reveals true intent of LSU’s biology seminar class by Ronica.
Your God is too small. Closing your eyes and your minds to the amazing discoveries of science and burying your heads in the archaic sand of your religion is not necessary to maintain your faith. Allow your God to be bigger than your understanding of the Genesis account or evolutionary theory. Allow that the beautiful poetry of the Bible might not be the equal of scientific research in determining how the universe works, but is none-the-less beautiful and meaningful. Rather than fighting against the advances of modern science and stubbornly clinging to 19th century modes of thought, it would be far better that you try to make the world a better place as far as you are able. Take this energy that you are using to fight science (sorry, there is no victory in this fight) and use it for good, help somebody, visit a sick person, volunteer at a soup kitchen, mow your elderly neighbor’s yard, invite a lonely person over for popcorn and games on Saturday night! Religion can be a beautiful and positive force in this world, or it can turn inward, ugly and useless, as it has in this pointless fight. Examine your motives here: what do you really hope to accomplish? Will accepting modern ideas possibly damage the 27 fundamental beliefs? Probably. Is that worse than allowing your church to moulder away into an out-dated and useless institution serving no one and eventually dying out? I think so.
