Evolution & Creationism .2
Thanks to the Westar Institute for tweeting a link to this article in The Seattle Times by Michael Zimmerman. It is a nice synopsis, I think, of a manufactured controversy between religion and evolution. Now, if only there was something similar about the manufactured “War on Christmas.”
Where There Is No Conflict Between Religion and Science
Michael Zimmerman | Opinion Guest | The Seattle Times | Feb 8, 2014The Christian clergy members who believe evolution can coexist with theology, like most clergy of most religions, recognize that their sacred texts were not written as scientific treatises.
They are comfortable embracing the words of the Dalai Lama, which appear at the top of a letter signed by American Buddhist clergy members: “If scientific analysis were conclusively to demonstrate certain claims in Buddhism to be false, then we must accept the findings of science and abandon those claims or adopt them as metaphor.” Click here to read more.