Sit Properly

sarva-dharman parityajya mam ekam saranam vraja

Archive for October 17th, 2007

Unintelligent Design

Posted in Gaudia Vaisnava on 10/17/2007 09:27 am by eric

I’ve seen a few articles by devotees supporting the Christians’ efforts to get “intelligent design” into classrooms. At first, it seems like it’s what we should believe in, right? We, as devotees, believe that the whole creation was intelligently designed by Krishna. And that if that were magically taught in public schools, we’d somehow be raising the next generation of America’s youths in a Krishna conscious sort of way.

29mons_ca0.jpg

But this is a really really super dangerous slippery slope of a position to take.

While we may think we believe in Intelligent Design, we don’t. However, we do believe in intelligent design (notice, no capital letters).

Intelligent Design (with caps) is another way of saying “Six Literal Days.” Here’s a dumb little website about it.

Now the six literal days folks are the folks who believe in the literal Biblical idea of creation. You know, Adam and Eve , etc. They believe that the earth is only about 8,000 years old. Brilliant idea.

Again, we believe in intelligent design. We don’t believe in Intelligent Design.

And it kind of bugs me off that these Christians are now using the phase “Intelligent Design.” Cause I believe in intelligent design.

It’s like saying, “Hey, Eric, do you believe in really good cashews?”
To which I’d reply, “Hells yeah, I love me some really good cashews!”
And to which they’d then reply, “Awesome! That’s great! Oh, but from now on ‘really good cashews’ is what we’re going to call ’slaughtering babies on street corners,’ hope that’s not a problem.”

I just don’t get it.

And I don’t get why devotees are supporting this. We do not believe in it. It’s a very bad idea to support Christians in their zany political endeavors. They would never do the same for us. And even if they would, we don’t believe in their absurd version of creation!

We have a very unique version of creation and evolution. Our version doesn’t really stand a chance of being taught in schools. But that doesn’t mean we should latch on to the Christian version of things.

The enemy of our enemy is not our friend.