Whether Conservative Or Liberal, Fundamentalist

We Know From Astronomy That The Universe Had A Beginning, From Physics That The Future Is Both Open And Unpredictable, From Geology And Paleontology That The Whole Of Life Has Been A Process Of Change And Transformation. From Biology We Know That Our Tissues Are Not Impenetrable Reservoirs Of Vital Magic, But A Stunning Matrix Of Complex Wonders, Ultimately Explicable In Terms Of Biochemistry And Molecular Biology. With Such Knowledge We Can See, Perhaps For The First Time, Why A Creator Would Have Allowed Our Species To Be Fashioned By The Process Of Evolution.

From Roger Bacon, The 13th Century Franciscan Who Pioneered The Scientific Method, To George Lemaitre, The 20th Century Belgian Priest Who First Developed A Mathematical Foundation For The 'big Bang,' People Of Faith Have Played A Key Role In Advancing Scientific Understanding.

What Evolution Tells Us Is That We Are Part Of A Grand, Dynamic, And Ever-changing Fabric Of Life That Covers Our Planet. Even To A Person Of Faith, In Fact Especially To A Person Of Faith, An Understanding Of The Evolutionary Process Should Only Deepen Their Appreciation Of The Scope And Wisdom Of The Creator's Work.

Any Suggestion That Science And Religion Are Incompatible Flies In The Face Of History, Logic, And Common Sense.

The Scientific Argument Advanced For Intelligent Design At The Dover Trial, Those Arguments Collapsed, Scientifically And Intellectually