Darwin and the Museum of Natural History
So, after four months of living four blocks away and after an earlier eight month period where I lived nearly next door I finally entered the Museum of Natural History.
The dinosaurs and “how the Earth was formed” stuff was interesting, but the Darwin Exhibit had me fixated. I tried to read everything but was saturated after about 90 minutes and had to retreat. My head’s still spinning.
I guess I always generally got the controversy around evolutionary theory, but today I was almost overwhelmed at the degree to which evolutionary and creationist teachings are at odds. The more Darwin developed his theory the more his faith faded.
I felt like the exhibit treated creationism as old school thinking. The scientists in one video I watched postulated pretty unapologetically that the more explanations science can provide the less relevant a higher power becomes. I can follow their logic, but I don’t think the answers are black and white. Anyone (scientist, theologian, or otherwise) who says they are strikes me as nearsighted and arrogant.