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This sort of appeasement is OK.

Posted on: December 2, 2007 5:30 PM, by Greg Laden

They call themselves "evolutionary evangelists" -- an ordained minister and a science writer who travel full time to proclaim the "kick-butt good news" of evolution.

They travel in a van decorated with a symbol of their gospel: The popular image of the Jesus fish kissing a bumper-sticker parody of that image -- a Darwin fish sprouting feet.

Hmmm. Is this a "don't ask don't tell" situation ....?....


The Rev. Michael Dowd -- author of the new book "Thank God for Evolution!" -- and his wife Connie Barlow, an author of four books on evolution, believe that after years of quarrel, science and religion can kiss and make up.

These are folks, from the religious end, walking that line between science and religion. In my view, that is good ... if they do it. This is what religion and religious leaders need to do if they can't do anything else. Religion needs to appease science.

Read the whole article here.

[Thanks to Joe for sending the link]

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