American - Scientist | July 14, 1948 -
What evolution tells us is that we are part of a grand, dynamic, and ever-changing fabric of life that covers our planet. Even to a person of faith, in fact especially to a person of faith, an understanding of the evolutionary process should only deepen their appreciation of the scope and wisdom of the creator's work.
Kenneth R. Miller
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Our own genomes carry the story of evolution, written in DNA, the language of molecular genetics, and the narrative is unmistakable.
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Once upon a time, growing up male gave little boys a sense of certainty about the natural order of things. We had short hair, wore pants, and played baseball. Girls had long hair, wore skirts, and, no matter how hard they tried, always threw a baseball just like a girl.
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America's got a Darwin problem - and it matters. According to a 2009 Gallup poll taken on the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth, fewer than 40% of Americans are willing to say that they 'believe in evolution.'
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I am always struck by the fact that human awareness of our place in nature, like so much of modern science, began with the Industrial Revolution.
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Modern science developed in the context of western religious thought, was nurtured in universities first established for religious reasons, and owes some of its greatest discoveries and advances to scientists who themselves were deeply religious.
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Biology is far from understanding exactly how a single cell develops into a baby, but research suggests that human development can ultimately be explained in terms of biochemistry and molecular biology. Most scientists would make a similar statement about evolution.
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There is no controversy within science over the core proposition of evolutionary theory.
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We don't regard any scientific theory as the absolute truth.
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The scientific argument advanced for intelligent design at the Dover trial, those arguments collapsed, scientifically and intellectually.
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The argument for intelligent design basically depends on saying, 'You haven't answered every question with evolution,'... Well, guess what? Science can't answer every question.
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The new strategy is to teach intelligent design without calling it intelligent design.
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