February 12, 2009
Creationists & Evolutionists Should Declare Peace
There is a rising international declaration for peace to be called between the creationists and the evolutionists. No more arguing about whether dinosaurs in the Congo being found will prove Evolutionary beliefs and theories or Creationist beliefs and theories. No more worries about what the media will think of cryptozoologists who are creationists or evolutionists or agnostics. The battle axe needs to be buried between the camps this week, and a call for peace between the various sides is being sounded by Loren Coleman, well-known cryptozoologist.
Loren Coleman is calling on leaders of all sides of the cryptozoological creationism vs evolution points of view to call a truce from their side, as well.
Prominent scientists and leading religious figures from the UK to China have joined forces to call for an end to the debate over Charles Darwin’s legacy, main media reported. Cryptozoologists around the world need to follow suit.
This year is the 200th anniversary of Darwin’s birth, and the 150th anniversary of his evolution theory. However, the battle between Darwinists and creationists is far from over, and carries on full-swing.
Scientists and religious figures warn ahead of the anniversaries that militant atheists are using evolution theory as a weapon to attack religion, therefore, turning people away from it.
In a letter published in The Daily Telegraph on Monday, they also urge believers in creationism to acknowledge the overwhelming body of evidence that now exists to back up Darwin’s theory of how life on Earth has developed.
The letter read, in part:
Evolution, we believe, has become caught in the crossfire of a religious battle in which Darwin himself had little personal interest.
We respectfully encourage those who reject evolution to weigh the now overwhelming evidence, hugely strengthened by recent advances in genetics, which testifies to the theory’s validity. At the same time, we respectfully ask those contemporary Darwinians who seem intent on using Darwin’s theory as a vehicle for promoting an anti-theistic agenda to desist from doing so as they are, albeit unintentionally, turning people away from the theory.
In this year of all years, we should be celebrating Darwin’s great biological achievements and not fighting over his legacy as some kind of anti-theologian.
The influential signatories of the letter include two Church of England bishops, a spokesman for the Muslim Council of Britain and a member of the Evangelical Alliance, as well as Professor Lord Winston, the fertility pioneer, and Professor Sir Martin Evans, winner of the Nobel Prize for Medicine.
Loren Coleman calls on cryptozoologically-aware creationists, evolutionists, and those on the fence to also declare peace.
About Loren Coleman
Loren Coleman is one of the world’s leading cryptozoologists, some say “the” leading living cryptozoologist. Certainly, he is acknowledged as the current living American researcher and writer who has most popularized cryptozoology in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
Starting his fieldwork and investigations in 1960, after traveling and trekking extensively in pursuit of cryptozoological mysteries, Coleman began writing to share his experiences in 1969. An honorary member of Ivan T. Sanderson’s Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained in the 1970s, Coleman has been bestowed with similar honorary memberships of the North Idaho College Cryptozoology Club in 1983, and in subsequent years, that of the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club, CryptoSafari International, and other international organizations. He was also a Life Member and Benefactor of the International Society of Cryptozoology (now-defunct).
Loren Coleman’s daily blog, as a member of the Cryptomundo Team, served as an ongoing avenue of communication for the ever-growing body of cryptozoo news from 2005 through 2013. He returned as an infrequent contributor beginning Halloween week of 2015.
Coleman is the founder in 2003, and current director of the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine.
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