Physics Today e-mailed me this link to John McCain’s views on the veracity of Evolution and its compatibility with Christian mythology…
John McCain on teaching evolution
From his 2005 book “Character is Destiny”:
“Darwin helped explain nature’s laws. He did not speculate, in his published theories at least, on the origin of life. He did not exclude God, for Whom the immensity of time is but a moment, from our presence. The only undeniable challenge the theory of evolution poses to Christian beliefs is its obvious contradiction of the idea that God created the world as it is in less than a week. But our faith is certainly not so weak that it can be shaken to learn that a biblical metaphor is not literal history. Nature doesn’t threaten our faith. On the contrary, when we contemplate its beauty and mysteries we cannot quiet in our heart an insistent impulse of belief that for all its variations and inevitable change, before its creation, in a time before time, God let it be so, and, thus, its many splendors and purposes abide in His purpose.”
More from CBN News.
CNN: “I believe in evolution,” Sen. John McCain said. “But I also believe, when I hike the Grand Canyon and see it at sunset, that the hand of God is there also.”
John McCain’s particular flavor of religion is Christianity. As someone who acknowledges no other form of superstition apart from the one he was taught, he compares Evolution with the one supernatural theory he knows well : Christian mythology. He concludes that there is no contradiction between said mythology and the scientific theory of Evolution, because Darwin did not exclude the possibility that life’s origin may have had a supernatural cause. Furthermore, McCain see’s God’s hand in the Grand Canyon, but apparently only at sunset, not so much at sunrise. What do I think? Politics is a business for men of limited imagination and intellect. Maybe this needs to change.
