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Originally Posted by FireEgo
I personally don't see any contradiction between the theory of evolution and a belief in god, I only see that the theory of evolution gets in the way of many religions desire to control the populace and protect the beliefs created over the last millenia, before science came to answer many of the questions people seek out.
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I agree. When you think about it, science and religion refer to completely different kinds of truth--they're not even in the same category. Plenty of scientists are religious--and plenty of religious people believe in evolution, big bang theory, believe that the earth is round, that it goes around the sun and not vice versa, etc. etc.
The so-called contradiction between them is an invention of the culture wars--and part of the divisive politics of the American right. It's a bit disheartening to see that making its way into the Canadian school boards. Here's hoping we don't see
Of Pandas and People in Canadian science classrooms anytime soon. That's a scary, scary book, and there's a huge lobby group down here that wants to see it adopted as a core science textbook.
The right will even trot out nut-job "scientists" who support this nonsense, and use that to pretend that there's a real debate over the question of whether evolution occurred--when in fact, as we saw in the Gould example above, the only real debate among scientists is as to HOW it occurred.