Last Tuesday in a debate with her Democrat opponent Chris Coons, Republican and Tea Party favorite Christine O’Donnell said “Where in the Constitution is ‘separation of church and state?’” once again showing what the mainstream press and establishment politicians knew all along: The Tea Party is full of nothing but racist conspiracy theory nut jobs and tax protestors.
Chris Coons, who is Ivy League educated like our esteemed President Obama, of course found this statement by O’Donnell quite laughable. He and Wolf Blitzer exchanged knowing glances like two parents dealing with a three year old. After all the separation of church and state is clearly written in the First Amendment:
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
No question about that…
Consider this:
The definition of religion -
“a specific fundamental set of beliefs and practices generally agreed upon by a number of persons or sects: the Christian religion; the Buddhist religion.” – dictionary.com
Definition of ‘belief’:
“confidence in the truth or existence of something not immediately susceptible to rigorous proof” – dictionary.com
Charles Darwin regarding his theory of evolution by natural selection:
Quoted from the book "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life," 1859, p. 155:
"To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree."
Fact
Molecular biology, biochemistry and genetics has already confirmed the even the tiniest bacterial cells are far more complicated machinery than anything built by man. The idea that living organisms simply evolved randomly without any intelligent guidance is nothing short of a statistical impossibility.
Evolution exclusively by natural selection and random mutation as the origin of life and humanity as we know it is nothing more than a belief and, due to the complexity of even the smallest living organism, is about as close to impossible a belief as you can get requiring as much faith as believing God created the universe.
That living organisms evolve is not in question. However ideas about how it happens and what drives and causes it to happen is definitely in the realm of religion – even when that religion is materialism.
Coons vs. O’Donnell on the First Amendment
Coons would support what legislators in several states have already done by outlawing the instruction of the idealist intelligent design theory of evolution in public schools while the materialist theory of evolution by natural selection remains sanctioned by the government.
Legislative condemnation of one while sanctioning the other is exactly what the First Amendment is there to protect against. Separation of Church and State does not mean the Government is to respect materialistic explanations over anything else.
Materialism as a basis for the origin of life and the universe and all its phenomena is far from proven fact. People who believe that all life and living organisms are no more than meat bags animated by chemical reactions are as much taking a leap of faith and subscribing to a religion as are Christians, Jews, Muslims, Hindus and others.
Either outlaw teaching any of it in public schools because the government cannot respect one over the others or permit teaching it all in the name of freedom to exercise all religions.
When Republican O’Donnell told Democrat Coons"Talk about imposing your beliefs on the local schools. You've just proved how little you know not just about constitutional law but about the theory of evolution," she was actually right on the money.
