{"id":1050,"date":"2009-05-28T13:52:50","date_gmt":"2009-05-28T17:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=1050"},"modified":"2009-06-27T13:17:09","modified_gmt":"2009-06-27T17:17:09","slug":"opposing-faiths-clash-over-evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1050","title":{"rendered":"Opposing Faiths Clash over Evolution"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Discovery Institute \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the Seattle-based headquarters of the intelligent design movement \u00e2\u20ac\u201c has just launched a new website, Faith and Evolution<\/a>, which asks, can one be a Christian and accept evolution<\/a>? The answer, as far as the Discovery Institute is concerned, is a resounding: No.<\/p>\n

The new website appears to be a response to the recent launch of the BioLogos Foundation<\/a>, the brainchild of geneticist Francis Collins, former head of the Human Genome Project and rumoured<\/a> Obama appointee-to-be for head of the National Institutes of Health. Along with “a team of scientists who believe in God” and some cash from the Templeton Foundation<\/a>, Collins, an evangelical Christian who is also a staunch proponent of evolution, is on a crusade to convince believers that faith and science need not be at odds. He is promoting “theistic evolution” \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the belief that God (the prayer-listening, proactive, personal God of Christianity) chose to create life by way of evolution.<\/p>\n

This has always been a delicate issue,particularly in teaching evolution in the science classroom.\u00c2\u00a0Reconciling science and religion has never been easy and perhaps a decision\u00c2\u00a0better left to the individual?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Discovery Institute \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the Seattle-based headquarters of the intelligent design movement \u00e2\u20ac\u201c has just launched a new website, Faith and Evolution, which asks, can one be a Christian and accept evolution? 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