10,000 clergy have added their names to a pro-evolution letter.

Sounds good to me. Best of luck to them.

Of course. Not all believers think intellectual honesty and rigor is Satan's domain, just too darned many of them.

Thanks for the piece and link.

I think the two are compatible, as long as those who don't have any experience in the scientific, logical, methodical way of thinking agree with those who do.

I've never understood the conflict.

Thanks. I bookmarked the site for later exploration, but didn't have to join the read the article. I myself have no conflict between my faith and evolution as a process. We've gone way beyond the 150 year theory of Natural Selection by Darwin. I think too many love to use his terms of that long ago with a somewhat closed mind. Back then there was no knowledge of DNA etc. He was just a great observer of nature.
Thanks.

Seems like a very positive current in the world. Thank you for sharing it with us!

Um-m-m-m... sorry, but this doesn't really help. Science and religion ARE at odds. People who equate 'belief' with scientific knowledge keep leading our elected officials into know-nothing nonsense ("Teach the controversy." WHAT controversy? There IS NO CON-TRO-VER-SY!). We need to just stop talking to these folks, because the two are NOT equal expressions of understanding... of ANYTHING.

Whenever ANY debate comes down to one party saying, "This I believe," that debate is over. One cannot debate with religious faith, because the very essence of belief is the internal certainty that God can trump the physical laws of the universe, anywhen - anywhere, and does so regularly. There are no facts in dispute, only tenets of faith, which are givens, and, therefore, the undeniable, undebateable false premises of the belief side of the argument.

Well, Chuck, science and religion are at odds for some people, not for everyone. You may interpret this to mean that some people don't know what they are talking about, but there are some very smart people in "this group" so I would have to disagree. I found it interesting, and I think that it is helpful for some people to be given resources that help them speak up for evolution... without coming into conflict with their own faiths. Thanks for the comment.

James B. I'd agree with you if you were right...

But you're not.

Thanks for the link

This is very interesting. And a nice surprise.

How curious that the Darwinists , who are largely atheists, are attempting to align somewhat with the church. The problem with the 'play-nice' idea between religion and Darwinian evolution is that Darwin (and his modern followers) hold that his theory allows for all life to come about from one or a few beginning organisms exclusively through blind purposeless random chance events that are incrementally selected because each confers some survival benefit on the host. Thus, an undirected process.
But can God 'direct' an 'undirected' process? Either obviously no or else he directs it to look undirected (for some reason).
Also no modern Darwinist explains the origin of the biological complexity 'information" found in the DNA of even the most basic cells. Believing that out of 'nothing' came everything is not a satisfying scientific position but that is where the Darwinists want to run.
Matter + Energy Does not equal Information. The only source of Information that we know of is from a Mind, from an Intelligence.

The real reason that the Darwinists want to coax and fool clergy into signing on is to provide false cover and use the less sophisticated in the church to give legitimacy to their unsupportable views.

You missed the boat on this entirely. These church members have embraced Darwinism, they have not been coaxed at all. People who believe in evolution also believe that the only way to present it is by teaching science. Of course, other people have every right to be uneducated in the area of science, just as they have every right to believe in, cling to, or worship fairy tales.

These clergy generally have not asked (or been encouraged to ask) the right questions.
Many that teach evolution will not allow or encourage the teaching of it's issues. Such problems/data (like an alibi proves that a suspect didn't do the crime) that proves that chance is incapable of achieving the steps required of it in order to achieve the Darwinist's real goal of establishing a godless world. The clergy don't know of these problems because they are not taught.