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On evolution, can religion evolve?
Texas governor and GOP candidate Rick Perry, at a campaign event this week, told a boy that evolution is ”just a theory” with “gaps” and that in Texas they teach “both creationism and evolution.” Perry later added “God is how we got here.” According to a 2009 Gallup study, only 38 percent of Americans say they believe in evolution. If a majority of Americans are skeptical or unsure about evolution, should schools teach it as a mere “theory”? Why is evolution so threatening to religion?
Christianity’s evolution problem
The real problem with evolution is that Christians have yet to reflect deeply on how they fit into a Darwinian world.
Religion and evolution in Texas and beyond
Perry doesn’t appear to know Texas’ official policy on the teaching of evolution in public schools.
Scientific facts on evolution not subject to popular vote
If 55 percent of Americans believed the South won Civil War would it be true?
No Gov. Perry, schools can’t teach religion as science, even in Texas
The struggle to keep religion and science separate in the classroom is a never-ending battle in Texas, as is it in other states where anti-evolution sentiment runs deep. But the Constitution has something to say about faith-based education.
The high priest of evolution
Dawkins and his contemporaries are trying to beat religion at what religion does best, conversion.
Attention Governor Perry: Evolution is a fact
A politician’s attitude to evolution, however peripheral it might seem, is a surprisingly apposite litmus test of more general inadequacy.
Religions, like all living things, evolve
When Rick Perry and the millions of others who resist the concept of evolution, they not only resist science in potentially dangerous ways, they disown a fundamental truth about the faith they follow.
Evolution threatens Christianity
There was no Adam and no Eve. No Adam and Eve: no fall. No fall: no need for redemption.
Evolution doesn’t reflect well on omnipotence
The concept of evolution is critically dangerous to any literalist, fundamentalist vision of Christianity because it not only contradicts, but bluntly refutes, the accounts of creation in Genesis.
No need for evolution and the Bible to conflict
Catholics have never felt tension between their belief in God the creator and evolutionary theory.
Ignorance and the presidency
One should never overestimate the intelligence in the electorate, but a leader who plays to the fears born in ignorance is not worthy to lead this nation.
Ancient Hinduism enlightens modern notions of evolution
The Hindu and Abrahamic conception of time, human origins, and creation, then, are diametrically divergent. Hindus conceive of creation as part of an ongoing cycle of creation and destruction.
Religion, at its best, should foster science
Religion at its best should respect and foster science, in its methods and content, because all knowledge and truth derive from the one God.
A Catholic view on evolution
Only unguided natural selection is truly incompatible with Catholic teachings.
Understand evolution, find God
Evolution is inconsistent with religion only if you believe that religion must be based on antiquated, disproven ideas. Faith should not be afraid of science.
God can act through evolution
An accurate interpretation of “In the beginning God created…” can rightfully include incremental adaptability.
Science is not democratic
However, science is not and should not become democratic. If 100 million people believe a wrong thing, it is still a wrong thing.
Teach the Bible’s creation story in literature class
They give keen insight into how we understand ourselves and the wonderful world in which we live. And so does the scientific understanding of that creation; two different understandings of truth, arrived at by different methods.
Down with evolutionism and creationism!
Religious views of evolution are also evolving.
The theological case for evolution
The biblical and theological case for evolution is a case for God’s infinity and the freedom of God’s creation.
Attention Governor Perry: Evolution is a fact
A politician’s attitude to evolution, however peripheral it might seem, is a surprisingly apposite litmus test of more general inadequacy.
Evolution and its consequences
No one was there “in the beginning” so I am going to trust what God said.
Governor Perry, like many Christians, wants to leave room for God
“Darwinism” is certainly incompatible with Christianity and quite possibly wrong. Nature, matter and energy, are not all there is.
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