Science Text Attempts to Reconcile Religion and Science

terrymaster69 writes "The New York Times reports that the National Academy of Sciences has just published their third book outlining guidelines for the teaching of evolution. 'But this volume is unusual, people who worked on it say, because it is intended specifically for the lay public and because it devotes much of its space to explaining the differences between science and religion, and asserting that acceptance of evolution does not require abandoning belief in God.'"

Re:Logic vs Faith

[Anonymous Coward]

if (IQ >= 100) then evolution; else creation; endif

Re:The evolution of gods

[throup]

fully evolved

? Evolution does not have a target or a final destination. It keeps on going. Richard Dawkins is no more evolved than George Bush, who in turn is no more involved than an earthworm.

Secularist Country?

[JochenBedersdorfer]

If the National Academy of Sciences feels the urge to make such a statement, then this is another shocking sign of how far religious thinking has permeated the US of A.

I keep looking forward to the time when people proclaiming to get their commands from god have to pay the same price as people proclaiming that elvis is still alive looking like a happy man/ in the snow with Rosebud/ and King of the mountain.

Evolution happens and God is real, Jesus is Lord

[CrazyJim1]

I was reamed out last evolution post here on Slashdot because I thought speciation needed to happen for evolution to work. Now that I know that natural selection is even considered as one form of evolution, I'm down with the idea of evolution. I'm not even arguing against speciation. Evolution has a large number of concepts though and it infers a Big Bang and a Spark of Life for it to work. While you won't get me biting on those two tickets, I know evolution is solid science. I think a lot of Creationists would bite on evolution if the spark of life wasn't part of the equation. I mean Creationism says how it all started, and evolution says how everything is changing since it began. Just looking at it that way it makes sense. While I can't tell you how old the world is, I can rest assuredly say that evolution works in this post fall of man world.

Re:Trying to bring a god in classroom

[ezzthetic]

I have no problem bringing god into the classroom.

Just as long as it's one of the Elder Gods of H. P. Lovecraft.

Re:The evolution of gods

[throup]

I previewed that and still missed the typo! Should say:

Evolution does not have a target or a final destination. It keeps on going. Richard Dawkins is no more evolved than George Bush, who in turn is no more evolved than an earthworm.

Re:Religion vs. Science and Logic

[stewbacca]

any rational, logically thinking person should realise that all religions are complete nonsense.

Amen and halleluja! ...oh wait

Re:Logic vs Faith

[ProfessionalCookie]

if evolution(){
      u = monkey++;
} ;)

Re:The standards of truth are entirely different.

[theheadlessrabbit]

"What is known about science is backed by hard evidence - religion has no such standard."

what are you talking about....religion totally has a rock solid standard.
1) Religion is based on the Bible, and the Bible is infallible.
2) we know the bible is infallible because the bible says that it is infallible. and if you doubt this to be the case, see reason 1.
3) religion makes people feel warm and fuzzy.

you just can't argue that kind of logic.

How can a vast body of thoroughly tested, peer-reviewed knowledge supported by millions of facts possibly compare to that?

in all seriousness, it's shit like this that makes me feel lucky that I wasn't 'educated' in America.

Re:Logic vs Faith

[fbjon]

Religions derived from Mosaic beginnings are based on intolerance and exclusivity.

So are the browser wars based on intolerance and exclusivity, since they're derived from "Mosaic beginnings"?

Re:Orthogonal concepts

[cHiphead]

To tell you the truth, even the Agnostics and many 'practicing' Christians have figured this out, we just don't want to talk about it.

LALALAL IM NOT LISTENING LALALALALA.

Cheers.

Re:The limits of science

[DeVilla]

There are no gaps. It's dark matter all the way down.

Re:Trying to bring a god in classroom

[northstarlarry]

Teacher: "Class, you may have noticed on the course syllabus that we are due to begin learning about evolution today. However, I think it's important to get a sense of humanity's place in the universe, and so we're going to take a short digression today into the significance of all our lives. Namely, [turns off lights and displays first slide] as morsels of food for Great Cthulhu." [Slide depicts the dread god devouring the earth.]

[Some whimpering and gasping is heard among the students.]

Teacher: "Cthulhu fhtagn!"

Re: Orthogonal concepts

[JohnnyBGod]

The kind of God who failed to license humans under the GPL.