Yesterday at work, I had a woman I work with make a snide comment about Right Wing Christians. I asked her what she meant and she stated that most of these people were uneducated and gullible. She was flabbergasted when I told her I was a Born Again Christian, and that I attended a Baptist church. She told me I was way to smart to believe in that type of stuff. Then she made an unintelligible reference to the Pope and Pedophile Priests and how horrible organized religion was. She asked me if I believed in Adam and Eve? When I answered in the affirmative, she just stared at me like I had two heads. I told her you couldn’t pick and choose what you believe in the bible, you either believe it is God’s word or you don’t.

            I then asked her if she believed in Darwin’s theory of evolution. Again she answered in the affirmative, and I asked her if she had actually read the book, or dogmatically just believed whatever she was told by the media and public schools? She had never read the book, and couldn’t really explain what the theory was. It was something about evolution, which made much more sense then intelligent design I was informed. I told her in “The Origin of the Species” in chapter 10, Darwin discusses “The Imperfection Of The Geological Record”. In 1845 when Darwin initially published his views, the fossil record had never shown any finely linking specimens.

“The several difficulties here discussed, namely, that, though we find in our geological formations many links between the species which now exist and which formerly existed, we do not find infinitely numerous fine transitional forms closely joining them all together.”
 

            Darwin assumed that as the record of Paleontology grew, we would find many of these finely linking specimens and his theory would be proved right. Here we are 160 years and millions of fossils later, and how many of these finely linking specimens have we found? Zero.
 

            After I brought all of this to her attention, quick as a thought she started talking about how she believed in a higher power, not necessarily God though. I asked her what on earth she was talking about? She just shrugged and walked away. I believe this is the first time I had brought up the fact that I was a Born Again Christian at work, and I actually felt a little embarrassed about it. What in the world has happened to the United States, where you are looked down upon if you believe there was a purpose to our making, and that we aren’t just a random creation equivalent to a blade of grass?