Day of Reckoning: Evolution Sunday is coming to a church near you

[deadparrot]

Stymied by a federal judge in their attempt to inject religious dogma into the public school science classroom, proponents of “intelligent design” are now staring down the barrel of another humiliation. On Sunday, churches throughout America will open their arms and embrace the theory of evolution.

The brainchild of Wisconsin biology professor Michael Zimmerman, Evolution Sunday celebrates Charles Darwin’s theory of the origin of species by teaching evolution in more than 400 church congregations in forty-nine states across the country.

“The goal is to make it clear that religion and science are not adversaries,” said Zimmerman, dean of the College of Letters and Science at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh. “There is nothing in Christianity that precludes modern science.”

Zimmerman has been involved in the debate over creation science for the last twenty-five years, often called upon to defend the teaching of evolution in public schools. The fact that Evolution Sunday, with a date chosen to coincide with Darwin’s birthday, will take place less than two months after Judge John E. Jones III unmasked ID as little more than repackaged creation science in Kitzmiller et al. v. Dover Area School District is simply icing on the cake.

http://www.science-spirit.org/article_detail.php?article_id=591

Evolution Sunday website here: http://www.uwosh.edu/colleges/cols/rel_evol_sun.htm

[laheina]

1. Awesome.

Evolution only contradicts the bible if you want to believe the story of Adam and Eve is literal.

[varkam]

2. Which, apparently

at least some people do.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

6. Which mainstream churches do not

:-)

I went to high school in the mid 1960s. Our biology teacher had a lengthy unit on evolution, and only one student objected. He was a Jehovah's Witness, and he refused to take biology at all because evolution was taught. The rest of us were fine with evolution, and the way it was taught, it was a natural outgrowth of the unit on genetics.

[NMMNG]

3. Empirical truth in a church? Perish the thought!

[xchrom]

4. parish the thought.

[NMMNG]

5. Indeed

:P

[CatholicEdHead]

7. I caught this in the article

" Zimmerman hopes Evolution Sunday, which will be observed in every state except Arkansas, will help publicize the success of The Clergy Letter Project, and already there are signs of a growing desire among some Christian communities to publicly affirm evolutionary principles. The Roman Catholic Church recently moved to reaffirm and clarify its acceptance of evolution as valid science. Last month, L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican’s newspaper, published an article in which Fiorenzo Facchini, a professor of evolutionary biology at the University of Bologna, argued that presenting ID as scientific theory creates confusion between the realms of science and religion. And two weeks later, the Reverend George V. Coyne, director of the Vatican Observatory in Arizona, affirmed the validity of evolution as a scientific theory in an address at Palm Beach Atlantic University, an interdenominational Christian university with about 3,100 students. Because the Bible is not a source of scientific knowledge, he said, it complicates matters to interpret evolution in biblical terms"

Coming down on the RCC for a "pro-evolution" stance. I am glad we are not doing this, though we still have needless issues over gay marriage.