Re: its quite easy to accomodate faith and science (was ID vs. ?)

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Date: Thu Sep 21 2000 - 23:21:33 EDT

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    More examples to show that SJ is wrong

    http://www.aaas.org/spp/dser/evolution/epic/intro.htm

                              "Recently several prominent organizations in the
    scientific
                              community have also taken care to express a view
    that there is
                              not an inherent conflict between evolution and
    religious belief. A
                              1998 National Academy of Sciences (NAS) report
    promoting
                              the teaching of evolution in public schools begins
    with the
                              statement "Whether God exists or not is a question
    about which
                              science is neutral." At the news conference at
    which the report
                              was released, members of the drafting panel
    emphasized that
                              most religions have no conflict with evolution and
    that many
                              scientists are religious. Speaking for the National
    Academy, its
                              president Bruce Alberts said that "There are many
    outstanding
                              members of this academy who are very religious
    people, people
                              who believe in evolution, many of them
    biologists."71 Similarly in
                              1997 the National Association of Biology Teachers
    revised its
                              "Statement on the Teaching of Evolution" to remove
    the words
                              "unsupervised," and "impersonal" which to some
    implied
                              atheism.72"

    "Voices for Evolution, a compilation of statements published by
                              the National Center for Science Education, includes
    texts from
                              15 major religious organizations supporting the
    teaching of
                              evolution in public schools.73 These include the
    Roman Catholic
                              Church, the United Methodist Church, the United
    Presbyterian
                              Church in the U.S.A., the Lutheran World
    Federation, the
                              Episcopal Church, the American Jewish Congress, and
    the
                              Central Conference of American Rabbis. "



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