The readings on Evolution vs Creation vs ¿Intelligent Design¿ caused me, a relatively calm and even tempered individual, to fight the urge to stand up in anger to the narrow minded nature of so much of America. The article by John Studebaker which defined DNA as equaling a work of GOD caused me to step back and think about what exactly I remember from AP Biology. DNA, Deoxyribonucleic acid, double stranded, matching bases, was about all I remembered¿a Christian God has what exactly to do with that? Although the author of the piece did state, ¿But interpreting the DNA actually has more to do with our basic experiences of life than with theology,¿ he also ended the piece by profoundly stating, as a result, ¿¿GOD is the intelligent designer!¿ (63) Does that add up? And even if it is supposedly true, how do you arrive at that conclusion after decades of real biology? I highly disagree with the fact that, ¿When people discover the design of the universe, they likewise begin a spiritual ¿awakening¿ process based on simple reason.¿ (64-65) I define myself as being both a very religious and spiritual person, but design has nothing to do with my faith.

What I need to make clear before staring a fire under anyone, is that I am not against ¿creation.¿ As a Hindu, I am taught to be open-minded. What I am against, however, is the defining of creation as based solely on the Christian principle then still being sold as a ¿universal¿ idea. ¿School boards are watering down the teaching of Darwinian evolution and promoting intelligent design, a theory that does not flatly reject evolution, but holds that organisms, or bits of organisms, are so complex that only an intelligent being could have designed them.¿ (66) The idea of teaching creation in schools is utterly and completely wrong. I know, half of you out there must be thinking it is hypocritical of me to define myself as open-minded then shut an idea out ¿ but you must keep in mind whose creation is being taught. The answer? You guessed it ¿ the ever powering force of Christianity. Now, if our society was set up differently we could possibly teach both sides of the issue, like Bush would lead us to believe, but ¿It sounds like you¿re being fair, but creation is a sectarian religious viewpoint, and intelligent design is a sectarian religious viewpoint.¿ (73) What I do believe, however can be summed up in the statement: ¿Faith is a deeply personal matter that defies scientific examination, and it is properly taught at home and at places of worship.¿ (74) What I wish, however is that the rest of society can understand that as well.