I'll be gone the rest of the day with some old friends in town to talk business, eat BBQ (5 racks of ribs are in the smoker right now) and play poker. But in the meantime, here's an article for you to read. Richard Colling, chairman of the biology department at Olivet Nazarene University in Illinois, emailed me this column he wrote for the Chicago Sun-Times. In it, he makes the case that evolution and Christianity do not necessarily conflict and that ID has done nothing to further our understanding of life. Enjoy.
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