Tag: evolution

The standard answer is Evangelicals can go either way on evolution with those supporting it claiming it’s just the mechanism God used to create the world as we know it. This might surprise some readers who assume all Evangelicals are literally six day young earth creationists.

It promotes the idea that one can be serious about Christian faith and still accept a scientific Darwinian account of human origins.

The reasons are simple and really, for me, pretty everyday: To try to find a way in which we may, as modern thinkers, express our religious sentiments without doing violence to the intellectual understandings of our recent cosmological and scientific discoveries — the enlightenment and post modern critiques — and to find God. Again.

WASHINGTON (RNS) Between scientific "facts" and evangelical faith, faith usually wins, according to a new survey.

Evolution is indeed very "dumb"— just like geology or astrophysics.

(RNS) “Questioning Darwin,” a new, hourlong documentary airing on HBO in February, juxtaposes the story of the 19th-century naturalist with looks into the lives of contemporary American Christians who believe the world was created in six days.

Yesterday we reported on a new survey suggesting that views on human evolution are driven by Americans’ religious affiliation more than their level of education.