Score One F/ Science: Astronaut (Presbyterian) John Glenn Says Evolution Should Be Taught In Schools

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Score One For Science: Astronaut (And Presbyterian) John Glenn Says Evolution Should Be Taught In Schools

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Glenn, now 93, recently granted an interview to the Associated Press, during which he made it clear that he is a religious man who supports evolution.

That might come as a surprise to some given that Glenn, a Presbyterian, observed in 1998 on a return trip to space that “to look out at this kind of creation out here and not believe in God is to me impossible.”   

For Glenn, however, religious belief and evolution can coexist.

“I don’t see that I’m any less religious by the fact that I can appreciate the fact that science just records that we change with evolution and time, and that’s a fact,” Glenn said. “It doesn’t mean it’s less wondrous and it doesn’t mean that there can’t be some power greater than any of us that has been behind and is behind whatever is going on.”

For religious people, Glenn really nailed it. In a single statement, he dismissed the simplistic creationist platform that there will always be a war between science and religion because the two are supposedly incompatible.  

And Glenn is not alone in this perspective. ...

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Thank you for the heads-up, Panich52!