RE: My God can Beat Up Your God

by Mike Tully

I'd like to emphasize the second point Jason Connor made in his editorial. If you deny the fact that homosexuality is against nature, you need to think about some things. If everyone today decided they didn't like the opposite sex, and stayed that way, the human species WOULD cease to exist in time. It just not in the best interest of the species. It's opposed to Darwin's theory of evolution, survival of the fittest and all that jazz. And being so, it surely must be a fluke of nature. Mental illness, along with all other types of illness, are not exclusive to homosapiens. If it's got a brain, it can go haywire. I'm not saying this is the one true cuase of homosexuality, but it might have something to do with it.

If we start comparing ourselves to dolphins and monkeys, we are not heading in the right direction. I am a human, not an animal. I can think for myself. I can read and write. I can create things. I can do evil, and I can do good. We are above our distant relatives the apes. When was the last time YOU saw a gorilla piloting a space shuttle?

Female Praying Mantis' routinely devour their counterparts after mating. Would that justify the same behavior in humans? Of course not. In fact that would get a conviction and a possible death sentance. Just becuase we see something in nature does not mean it's appropriate or natural (at least when it comes to our species)

Primates are just that. Primates. Primitive. We are civilized and we should act like it. By embracing an act inherently animalistic, we are well on our way down the toilet. No, everyone would not become a homosexual, and we would die off. But it would pave the way for other such things. The things that set us apart from the dolphins and monkeys. One by one the things I am proud of as a civilized human being would erode away, and we would just be another species on the planet earth.

Furthermore, I'd like to state that both creationism AND evolution are BOTH valid. I think it's likely that we did evolve from primates. I also think it's likely that God designed things this way. Who can tell how long those first seven 'days' were. Billions of years perhaps? I know for a fact dinosaurs lived, but the Bible has no mention of it. Excepting this:

Then God said, "Let the earth bring forth the living creature according to its kind: cattle and creeping thing and beast of the earth, each according to its kind: and it was so."

Then came the creation of man, all on the sixth 'day'.

Now on the fifth 'day', I'd like to point out that sea creatures and birds were created. Correct me if I'm wrong, but according to modern science, first came sea creatures, from which evolved the dinosaurs. Then was the rise of the mammals. Totally in agreement with the Bible. Unfortunately I'm not aware of what birds supposedly evolved from, but to me it seems that feathers and scales are just too similair to be from two completely different evolutionary paths. Or maybe God was just really enthusiastic about the whole 'lots of identical things layered over each other can do neat stuff' concept at the time.