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ByDallasDubke Recently,amemberof my congregation asked if I had read the editorial in the Red Bluff Daily news titled, "Evolution vs. Reli- gion." The writer's lament is that religious people and even some in the scientific community find more cred- ibility in what he called the incredibly old and "absurd" biblical account. I may be able to feel the writer's lament regard- ing the child-like reading of Genesis; however, com- pared to "The Evolution Story," the Creation account leaves no embarrassment. If one wants to use the word, "absurd," consider the following account of our "beginnings," written in a child's "science" text- book. Once upon a time some 13.7 billion years ago give or take a couple hun- dred million. The uni- verse popped into exis- tence. There existed a "sin- gularity" no bigger than a speck of dust, but so heavy no one could have picked it up. In this speck all the forces currently at work in the universe — gravity, electromagnetism and so- called strong and weak nu- clear forces — were unified into a "super force." Suddenly, bang. Infla- tionary energy triggered a dramatic burst of expan- sion, from a subatomic particle to the universe we see today. Over millions of years, gravity pulled the atoms together until they grew into enormous clouds that were the size of galaxies. Some 4.6 billion years ago, Earth was covered in oceans of hot lava. The at- mosphere contained a mix of deadly poisons to all lifeforms. In a wondrous way the sun captured the earth and moon at the perfect distance, so the earth was not too hot or too cold. After 800 million years, the earth cooled for liq- uid water to form. Every- where rains began to fall, filling the Earth with wa- ter, forming lakes, oceans and rivers. It was lifeless. No fish in the oceans, no plants cov- ering the barren wet rock. From somewhere, life- less chemicals gathered to form the "primordial soup" thought to contain amino acids, proteins, and lipids from somewhere. With a strike of lighting the first cell was formed. Being simple, it didn't need oxygen to survive. Over millions of years, food supplies dwindled but new cells somehow formed. By chance, these cells developed the ability to use oxygen which now existed on the earth. Creatures began to arise that were made up of two cells, ten cells, even thou- sands and billions of cells. These cells began to spe- cialize in different jobs, some acting as hearts, oth- ers as eyes, allowing life to become complex. Natural selection directed the pro- cess. It chose which life- forms survived and which died. For example, birds came from small dinosaurs. Feathers evolved from their scales. These scales turned feathers helped to keep them warm and were sexually attractive like a Peacock's feathers. Some of these dinosaurs be- gan to run and use their front limbs to jump off the ground! Eventually they flew. Natural selection gave these dinosaur-birds the knowledge to fly. Through a process of millions of years, human beings came from pri- mates. Who knows what human beings will look like thousands of years from now. In stark contrast to the above, consider the words from Genesis 1:1, "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. . . And God said, "Let us make man in our image,".. (As a side note, secular sci- entists are finding that the Big Bang explanation doesn't fit the observable evidence. See for yourself in the DVD "Astronomy," www.creationastronomy. com) And so, to those like the writer of "Science vs. Religion" who consider the Genesis account an "absurdity," what would you call the idea that life spontaneously arose through an explosion of a non-living singular- ity? And why does man- kind continue to search his heart for meaning in a meaningless universe if it were not for his Creator? InJuly1982theRev. Dallas Dubke became Pastor of St. Paul Lutheran Church Red Bluff and Mt. Olive Lutheran Church Corning where he has served for the past 30 years. A Michigan native, his interests include wrestling, Judo, chess, mountain climbing, and biking. He is married with four children. GOD TALK That biblical account — it's not that far-fetched By Kristen Moulton and Peggy Fletcher Stack The Salt Lake Tribune Nobody does pageantry like people of faith — and that was decidedly on dis- play Thursday night as the 2015 Parliament of the World's Religions opened with a lengthy processional at the Salt Palace in down- town Salt Lake City. Chiefs from seven Amer- ican Indian tribes, wearing traditional feathered head- dresses and fur cloaks, led the way to the podium as a drum circle accompanied their steps. They were followed by men and women dressed in the attire of their reli- gions — all-white tunics, black tunics, black suits with white collars, ma- roon-and-mustard robes, saris, black-and-red robes, and holy headgear of ev- ery kind including kippahs, turbans and headscarves. Thousands of partic- ipants watched — some snapping photos with cell- phones — as the procession winded its way to the front of the interfaith lovefest. From the stage, Ute and Piute tribal leaders wel- comed the visitors from 50 religions and 80 countries. Next came Imam Malik Mujahid, the conference chairman, who enthusiasti- cally opened the sixth Par- liament of the World's Re- ligions. "This is our time — the world is coming closer in the global village," Muja- hid said. "Let's bring hearts and minds together. That is the interfaith move- ment. Are you with me?" The crowd filling the ex- hibition hall roared back their affirmation. Utah officials, including Gov. Gary Herbert, Mayors Ralph Becker and Ben Mc- Adams, and LDS official L. Whitney Clayton — newly appointed president of the Quorum of the Seventy — joined speakers from sev- eral other faiths in offering their greetings and prayers for harmony and goodwill. Utah's The Rev. Patty Willis of South Valley Uni- tarian Universalist Church wrote lyrics about spiritu- ality of the earth for a piece composed specifically for this gathering by Utah- based composer Mary Lou Prince. She performed the hymn and led the crowd in singing along. Nearly 10,000 people are in Salt Lake City through Monday to dream out loud about a better world. But the real fruit of the conference will be seen when they go home, orga- nizers say. "We're not going to leave it in Salt Lake City," said Larry Greenfield, vice chairman of the group. "We're going to take it home." The five-day confer- ence is being held in the United States for the first time since 1993. It began in 1893 in Chicago, re- sumed a century later and since has been held in such cities as Cape Town, South Africa, and Melbourne, Australia. The idea of the confer- ence is to bring together people of diverse reli- gions to talk about what works and does not work in trying to solve prob- lems such as war, hatred, climate change, wasteful consumption and income inequality. Many of those attend- ing are activists, and they hope to influence civic groups, governments, non- profits and nongovern- mental organizations. "Religions have to be engaged in the world," said Greenfield, who is an ordained minister with American Baptist Churches U.S.A. Janaan Hashim, a de- fense attorney in Chicago and parliament board member, said the meeting has a ripple effect. "Who are we to tell peo- ple in Turkey how to solve their problems? Or people in California?" Hashim asked. "But it's very real- istic to have those people come here, to wrap their heads around these ideas and take that back home with them." Phyllis Curott, vice chairwoman of the parlia- ment, said, "To some ex- tent, we're preaching to the choir. But it reverberates." Curott, a Wiccan priest- ess who lives in New York, oversaw the first daylong women's assembly, which attracted 3,500 attendees Thursday. The session was a big step forward, she said. At the first World Parliament of Religions (the confer- ence's original name) in 1893, 19 of the 200 people who spoke were women, she said. "It was unusual for women to be given the platform at that time." At this year's gathering, 60 percent of those attend- ing are women and half of the presenters are women. "Religion is really the last area, the last realm of human relationships to open itself to the wisdom of women," she said. "And that's changing." Mujahid said govern- ments are beginning to take notice of the parlia- ment and its message of interfaith respect. They're beginning to create interfaith bureaus or agencies, he said. It's because faith com- munities, working to- gether, can do much good, Mujahid said, noting what happened along the Gulf of Mexico 10 years ago. Inter- faith groups were helping Hurricane Katrina victims before and after the gov- ernment was there to lend assistance. "Sometimes people con- fuse interfaith with dia- logue of the preachers," he said. "Interfaith is neigh- bors working with other neighbors. And neighborly relations are encouraged by all religious communi- ties." Bhai Sahib Satpal Singh Khalsa, the ambassador of the Sikh religion in the United States, said the parliament is a chance to have interfaith dialogue. "Interfaith is going to play the most important role in peace-building," he said. "The whole world is looking for peace." 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