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Some seem intent on juxtaposing evolution and Christianity; some on both sides. But they just might be wrong.
As it turn out this article sheds a lot of light on that:
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2009/10/27/shelley-emling-fossil-hunter-god-darwin-evolution/
From the article:
Point 1) Religionists are not really that opposed to evolution -
"And what about the clergy? Michael Zimmerman, a biology professor at Butler University in Indianapolis, said his work with the Clergy Letter Project has led him to believe that a vast number of religious leaders of all denominations are fully comfortable with science. He argues that religious fundamentalists are the exception, and that they tend to assert themselves "more aggressively" to maintain their waning influence."
Point 2) Scientists are not really that opposed to religion -
Most telling is that the proportion of Christians among the science faculty in certain departments at Oxford and Cambridge universities — such as the Earth Sciences Department in Cambridge or the Physics Department in Oxford — appears higher than the national average, says Denis Alexander, director of the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion, an academic research enterprise based at Cambridge.
"There are generally more Christians in the sciences than in the humanities," he said."
Point 3) The rational -
From scientists; "The British professor believes evolution isn’t as accidental or random as one might suspect. In his opinion, if evolution began all over again, human intelligence would develop pretty much in the same way as it has. Conway-Morris emphasizes that developments happen as a result of pre-existing conditions, such as the need for blood cells to have hemoglobin in order to transport oxygen. Evolution, therefore, works only because it plays out within a certain set of rules.
Evolution “is after all only a mechanism, but if evolution is predictive, indeed possesses a logic, then evidently it is being governed by deeper principles,” he recently wrote. “Come to think about it so are all sciences; why should Darwinism be any exception?”
And from religionists; ""Because the evidence for evolution is so overwhelming, we must consider it to be a truth about the natural world — the world which we as people of faith believe was created by God, and the world made understandable by the reason and natural senses given to us by God," he recently wrote. "Denying science is a profoundly unsound theological position. Science and faith are but two ways of searching for the same truths."
For more info see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Conway_Morris
According to both the believing scientists and the religionists the reason many cannot reconcile the two is not because of the theory or the doctrine but because of the subscription to the ideas of materialism and reductionism that take on faith proportions.
Some seem intent on juxtaposing evolution and Christianity; some on both sides. But they just might be wrong.
As it turn out this article sheds a lot of light on that:
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2009/10/27/shelley-emling-fossil-hunter-god-darwin-evolution/
From the article:
Point 1) Religionists are not really that opposed to evolution -
"And what about the clergy? Michael Zimmerman, a biology professor at Butler University in Indianapolis, said his work with the Clergy Letter Project has led him to believe that a vast number of religious leaders of all denominations are fully comfortable with science. He argues that religious fundamentalists are the exception, and that they tend to assert themselves "more aggressively" to maintain their waning influence."
Point 2) Scientists are not really that opposed to religion -
Most telling is that the proportion of Christians among the science faculty in certain departments at Oxford and Cambridge universities — such as the Earth Sciences Department in Cambridge or the Physics Department in Oxford — appears higher than the national average, says Denis Alexander, director of the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion, an academic research enterprise based at Cambridge.
"There are generally more Christians in the sciences than in the humanities," he said."
Point 3) The rational -
From scientists; "The British professor believes evolution isn’t as accidental or random as one might suspect. In his opinion, if evolution began all over again, human intelligence would develop pretty much in the same way as it has. Conway-Morris emphasizes that developments happen as a result of pre-existing conditions, such as the need for blood cells to have hemoglobin in order to transport oxygen. Evolution, therefore, works only because it plays out within a certain set of rules.
Evolution “is after all only a mechanism, but if evolution is predictive, indeed possesses a logic, then evidently it is being governed by deeper principles,” he recently wrote. “Come to think about it so are all sciences; why should Darwinism be any exception?”
And from religionists; ""Because the evidence for evolution is so overwhelming, we must consider it to be a truth about the natural world — the world which we as people of faith believe was created by God, and the world made understandable by the reason and natural senses given to us by God," he recently wrote. "Denying science is a profoundly unsound theological position. Science and faith are but two ways of searching for the same truths."
For more info see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Conway_Morris
According to both the believing scientists and the religionists the reason many cannot reconcile the two is not because of the theory or the doctrine but because of the subscription to the ideas of materialism and reductionism that take on faith proportions.
