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Which most closely resembles your current belief system?

Which most closely resembles your current belief system?. Dec 2010 Gallup Poll. http ://galluppoll.com. Scientists (1997). Agree or disagree?. Evolution and religion are incompatible.

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Which most closely resembles your current belief system?

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  1. Which most closely resembles your current belief system?

  2. Dec 2010 Gallup Poll http://galluppoll.com

  3. Scientists (1997)

  4. Agree or disagree? • Evolution and religion are incompatible.

  5. Religion and science (evolution) are very different things. In science, only natural causes are used to explain natural phenomena, while religion deals with beliefs that are beyond the natural world. • The misconception that one always has to choose between science and religion is incorrect. Of course, some religious beliefs explicitly contradict science (e.g., the belief that the world and all life on it was created in six literal days); however, most religious groups have no conflict with the theory of evolution or other scientific findings. In fact, many religious people, including theologians, feel that a deeper understanding of nature actually enriches their faith. Moreover, in the scientific community there are thousands of scientists who are devoutly religious and also accept evolution. http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evosite/misconceps/IVAandreligion.shtml

  6. Current Director for the NIH sees no conflict He first trained as a chemist, then became a physician, discovering God while trying to sort out the mysteries of life and death at age 27 during his residency at the University of North Carolina. He later landed at the University of Michigan, where he drew attention for codiscovering the gene mutations for cystic fibrosis in 1989. In 1993, he received an unexpected invitation from then director of the NIH, Bernadine Healy, to succeed James Watson as the head of the Human Genome Project--which Collins first declined, but later accepted. He believes that God created life through evolution (and he rejects intelligent design and creationsim). However, Collins chose to use the term BioLogos because of the association of evolution with atheism that occurs in some religious communities The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief (Free Press, 2006), spent many weeks on the New York Times bestseller list.

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