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President Bartlet Meets Senator Obama courtesy of (of-course-biased) The West Wing creator/writer Aaron Sorkin and the NY Times. We’re just into Season 4 of said show, but I’m amazed Sorkin can still write Bartlet so in character.
Being that the West Wing is probably my all-time favorite television show, I am ecstatic that Sorkin did this. Go NY Times for thinking of it. I still hold by my assertion that Bartlet should actually run for president (if Martin Sheen would be so kind as to channel him).
That said, as a Christian, I’m sad at the generalizations he makes about traditional creationist beliefs. What if I do believe that the earth is around 6000 years old? What if I do believe in Adam and Eve and The Fall? Does that make me stupid? Belief in the Creation and scientific data are not mutually exlusive, nor are they always at odds. The theory of Evolution hasn’t been proven, so what’s the problem?
said Mandy
at 4:36pm on Sunday
@Mandy:
There’s a particular part of what you said that really resonates with me, and it’s been on my mind for the past couple of weeks: “Does that make me stupid?”
I think it’s terrible debate/generalizing/discussion/whatever when people automatically assume that literal Creationists are intellectually unsound. Since when was a belief in one side or the other about one issue a qualification for general intelligence?
said Daniel
at 8:42pm on Sunday
Mandy, I couldn’t agree more!
It saddens me how little research atheists have done on creationism; only to mock a straw man of it. The typical age discussion usually goes; carbon dating and rock formations prove that the earth is millions of years old therefore a young earth is impossible. They fail to realize that this isn’t inconsistent with a young earth position at all. Young earth creationists believe that God created Adam instantaneously as a grown man. So on day two Adam was only two days old but would be by scientific observation a grown man. The same is true of the earth and it’s rock formations, plant life etc. God created a full grown ecosystem. So if you want to say that carbon dating proves that the earth is millions of years old, that’s fine, because Adam would have appeared and tested much older than he actually was as well.
Now what I would like to know all you Atheists out there, is how you can account for the scientific method, the universal laws of logic, the uniformity of nature and morality. I’ll sit and wait in my creationist ignorance until you can give me a cogent answer that doesn’t contradict your own worldview…
said shane
at 9:15pm on Sunday
LOVE IT! I just wish it was an actual episode of West Wing!
said Mike Jones
at 11:00pm on Tuesday