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Show Richard Can Henry Religion and Science Coexist 23 November 1980 THE for REASON do is traceable topic of this morning the way I the factthat there is a growing conviction the framing to among contemporary Christian fundamentalists that both science and religion are in some way fundamentally antitheti cal to each other in purpose and in spirit, and it is the duty, therefore, of what they regard and, where possible, and promulgates, to to "true religion" to discount discredit the world view science substitute for that world view the conception of the world and the book of Genesis as - our place in it that is this "in the Year of our found in Lord 1980"! of the conviction of these new fundamen strength impressed upon me recently when I asked a college professor whether he and his family were watching Carl Sagan's Cosmos series on television and his immediate reply The talists was was "No, we evolution." are That not. same That program, you know, teaches mistrust of science is evident across the country. Pressure is being put on school boards and school administrations to present the Old Testament story of theory of evolution because the latter, as these opponents say, is "only a theory." So why not give the Biblical explanation of the beginnings of things equal shrift with the theory of evolution? There is, you think, a curiously reminiscent ring to this creation found in Genesis as of equal value to the debate. was You scratch your head a little and remember this the subject which Clarence Darrow and William Jennings 335 |
