Consider, if you will, a technocrat (evolutionist) and a theocrat (creationist). I believe that they are living in each other's worlds! Consider the technocrat; what are his values? Reason, order, efficiency, control. His methods are mechanistic, and his central concern is mankind: a rationalist. Now consider the theocrat. His values are centered on God--a mysterious entity, characterized by infinite power, glory, and subtlety: a mystic. Now consider the technocrat's world. By his own account, the technocrat lives in a vast, mysterious, powerful, beautiful, terrible and wonderful cosmos that dwarfs all human endeavor. Whereas the theocrat's cosmos is tight, little, well-mapped, and human-centered; just the sort of world that you or I would design, if we were on a budget. The evolutionist lives in a mystical cosmos, the creationist lives in a rationalist cosmos. It is as if each had designed the world that the other shall inhabit!
--From a
page (fairly typical of this kind of thing) of arguments against creationism. This text was written by Nathaniel Hallerstein, a mathemetician at Berkeley. He's into
Klein bottles.