Churches to mark Darwin's birthday

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NEW YORK -- Nearly 450 Christian churches around the country plan to celebrate the 197th birthday of Charles Darwin on Sunday with programs and sermons intended to emphasize that his theory of biological evolution is compatible with faith and that Christians have no need to choose between religion and science.

"It's to demonstrate, by Christian leaders and members of the clergy, that you don't have to make that choice. You can have both," said Michael Zimmerman, dean of the College of Letters and Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, who organized the event.
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Zimmerman said the letter project and the Sunday event were designed to educate Americans about two things. "The first part was to demonstrate to the American public that the shrill fundamentalist voices that were demanding that people had to choose between religion and science were simply wrong," he said.

"The second part was to demonstrate that those fundamentalist leaders that keep standing up and shouting that you can't accept modern science were not speaking for the majority of Christian leaders in this country."

More: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0602110101feb11,1,287350.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed

[wryter2000]

1. Well done!

Nice. That's what I like to see.

[xchrom]

2. very cool!

[rodeodance]

3. "science help the hand of God"---early 1800's clerical them when science

was just taking off as a field of study.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

4. All right!

I understand how difficult it is for mainstream moderate/liberal churches to get themselves heard. Glad this got out in the press with its positive message.