Evolution as a Religion?

How can evolution be seen as a religion? I can't understand this. Fundamentalist Evangelicals have, instead of calling The Theory of Evolution by any of its 2 correct names, taken to calling it Darwinism. For starters completely Darwinian Evolution is not even what is taught or accepted by science. Darwinian Evolution is incomplete, and flawed, just as Newtonian Physics (AKA Classical Dynamics) was incomplete and flawed. Darwin didn't understand genetics as fully as we do know, he didn't have a way to test relatedness of species, and didn't even know what DNA was. We do have the means and understanding now to more fully understand evolution. After Darwin posed the idea of evolution one of two things could have happened. The idea would have been disproven, rejected, and thrown in the garbage heap with other disproven theories, or it would have been studied further and later confirmed as our understanding grew. Guess which one happened! Thats right it was studied further and confirmed, and no evidence disproves evolution currently.

Now with a religion, we have Bob, the founder of Bobism, who writes a religious text or has others compile religious texts of other religions adding his own flare to those. After doing so his text isn't tested, it is either accepted by people or it isn't based on faith alone. Many people will say of some religions that prophecies being fullfilled show their religion to be correct, but as is the case in portions of the Bible many prophecies have been back written, or were not fully fullfilled in the manner it stated they would be. Then of course believers forget when using prophecy or this or that to show their belief is right that even according to their belief they are supposed to believe based on faith alone.

Now if Evolution was indeed faith based as religions are, why does it rely on evidence? Why is it that people who accept the theory look for evidence that disproves it? Do Muslims look for evidence that disproves Allah? Not really. Could anything disprove Evolution? Of course something could have been found that would have disproved evolution, but it never was found. Could anything disprove Jehovah, Allah, Shiva, of Zeus? Not really, because the belief in their existance is based on faith and dogma, not testable scientific evidence.

School Vouchers: Blessing or Curse---

The public education system in the United States is full of problems. After watching an episode of 20/20 I started to think. Of course had school vouchers been available to myself I may have attended a private school, although the public school I had access to was above average in terms of test scoes, GPA, suspension/expulsion rates, attendance and graduation rate, a better private institution with a wider assortment of courses would have been very appealing to me. At the same time had school vouchers been available where and when I went to school a very good friend of mine would have ended up at a Fundamentalist Christian Private school, and many others I went to school with, including the top 4 students to graduate in my class would have ended up at similar schools. It seems odd that any republicans would support school vouchers, since such programs would tend to help the lower-class. Many republicans care nothing for the lower-class, they don't donate to their campaigns after all. They typically care very little for the youth of America, but then again that applies to all politicians. It becomes clear after a little thought why some republicans would support school vouchers. Vouchers would allow for any student to learn, or more correctly be indoctrinated, according to the belief system of such politicians. Any private school could get the vouchers, including schools that refuse to teach science and schools that teach hatred of any kind. Fundamentalist Christians and Neo-Wahabist Muslims both believe a system where students either learn from parents or in a non-regulated environment where they could be taught anything! Imagine if you will, the Eric Robert Rudolph institute...students learn about Christianity and how to build bombs to blow up clinics. Or the Kent Hovind School of Evangelical Creation Science, where students are taught science is just a bunch of stuff people made up to disprove God, except for the science that we like, and even those we aren't sure about. Or maybe the Warren Jeffs Tabernacle School, where they make sure your 15 year old daughter can pleasure her 45 year old husband and obey him. If you think Islamic Terror Schools in the middle east cause problems here imagine what such Christian schools could do here with government funding. Imagine the "mega"-churches making mega schools, all the children of members of the congregation attending, now being brain-washed 6 days of the week to believe everything their preacher says. Then imagine all those vouchers, being converted into cash by the mega-church, you are talking a big chunk of change at this point. Combine that with collection, tithes, and not having to pay a cent of tax....if such a mega-church made a mega-school under a school voucher situation the church could easily become a force to be reckoned with, not to mention the church already having an army of its own.

A civil war is the end result of such a situation. A church taking over a state...taking over a region...finally pushing to take over a nation. Sectarian violence is something in America's near future, and it will, in the end, be funded and supported by the government as it slowly is overrun with more supporters for one sect or another.