National Council of Churches Statement

For those interested, here is a statement from NCC committee concerning
teaching evolution.
 
NCSE put out this blurb:
 
"The National Council of Churches Committee on Public Education and
Literacy recently issued a statement on "Science, Religion, and the
Teaching of Evolution in Public School Classes," intended "to assist
people of faith who experience no conflict between science and religion
and who embrace science as one way of appreciating the beauty and
complexity of God's creation" as they consider the issues surrounding
the teaching of evolution. The statement addresses four questions:
"What is science? What is religion? Is it possible to think that both
religion and science are important? How is religious liberty, as
guaranteed by the First Amendment of the United States Constitution,
relevant to a discussion about the teaching of evolution in public
school science classes?"
 
Along with brief answers to those questions, the statement also includes
relevant quotations from the book of Hebrews, from the Episcopal
Church's Catechism of Creation, and from Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the
Dalai Lama, and theologians John Haught and Marcus Borg. It closes with
a quotation from Judge Jones's decision in Kitzmiller v. Dover rebutting
the idea that "evolutionary theory is antithetical to a belief in the
existence of a supreme being and to religion in general." In a press
release dated March 27, 2006, the committee which wrote the statement
said, "While many excellent resources about the teaching of evolution in
public school science classes have been made available for public school
teachers and the general public from the point of view of science, there
has been a shortage of ready resources written from the point of view of
religion."
 
http://www.ncccusa.org/pdfs/evolutionbrochurefinal.pdf
 
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Received on Fri Mar 31 15:32:42 2006