Sunday, January 30, 2005

Newsweek reports on ID

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6884904/site/newsweek/

Doubting Darwin looks at the 'controversy' surrounding intelligent design.


Well, so does the pope, but the Vatican has said it finds no conflict between Christian faith and evolution. Neither does Francis Collins, the director of the Human Genome Institute at the National Institutes of Health and an outspoken evangelical. He wrote recently of his view that God, "who created the universe, chose the remarkable mechanism of evolution to create plants and animals of all sorts." It may require some metaphysical juggling, but if more people could take that view, there would be fewer conflicts like the one in Dover. In the debate over I.D., both sides acknowledge that most scientists accept evolution, but they agree that scientific disputes are not settled by majority vote. School-board elections, however, are.


Read more at ID, Scott, Steves in Newsweek. Forecast: DI Complaints
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