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The origin of species, and Everything Else: coping with evolution and religion.(SCIENCE)
In the closing scene of the classic 1960 movie Inherit the Wind, Spencer Tracy holds a Bible in one hand and Darwin's Origin of Species in the other, smiles, claps them together, and puts them both under his arm as he walks out of the courtroom. This was an iconic encapsulation of the broader consensus of educated Americans of that era that we can accept both God and Darwin. In recent decades, however, the conservative coalition has become divided over the compatibility of faith and evolution.
Many people, including many scientists, have traditionally reconciled God with evolution by considering evolution to be a process created by God. Lately, this common-sense ...
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- Magazine article from: Skeptic (Altadena, CA) Shermer, Michael December 22, 2002 700+ words
...Richard Dawkins did something very similar in his book The Blind Watchmaker, except he used a different phrase--"Methinks it is...Rather discouraging. However, this just isn't the way evolution works. To the contrary, nature keeps the successes and...
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