At Churches Nationwide, Good Words for Evolution

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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/13/national/13evolution.html?_r=1&th=&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&emc=th&adxnnlx=1139835498-UqV0oYG8Entf58VICpRRHA&pagewanted=print

February 13, 2006

At Churches Nationwide, Good Words for Evolution

By NEELA BANERJEE and ANNE BERRYMAN

On the 197th birthday of Charles Darwin, ministers at several hundred churches around the country preached yesterday against recent efforts to undermine the theory of evolution, asserting that the opposition many Christians say exists between science and faith is false.

At St. Dunstan's Episcopal Church, a small contemporary structure among the pricey homes of north Atlanta, the Rev. Patricia Templeton told the 85 worshipers gathered yesterday, "A faith that requires you to close your mind in order to believe is not much of a faith at all."

In the basement of an apartment building in Evanston, Ill., the Rev. Mitchell Brown said to the 21 people who came to services at the Evanston Mennonite Church that Darwin's theories in fact had compelled people to have faith rather than look for "special effects" to confirm the existence of God.

"He forced religion to grow up, to become, really, faith for the first time," Mr. Brown said. "The life of community, that is where we know God today."

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[KyuzoGator]

1. Why is it hard to accept that maybe God started evolution?

I wish "Christians" would focus more on Christ's teachings instead of Old Testament allegory.

[HereSince1628]

4. Only speaking for myself, welding theism together with empiricism

is like trying to weld oil onto copper.

But I am only speaking for myself.

[Coexist]

2. K & R for sanity

thank you for this hopeful article.

[The Backlash Cometh]

3. Well, thank ye, churches.