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What Kind of Coexistence is this?
20 October 2004Surveys say: 40% of U.S. scientists believe in God. Unfortunately, that's about all that can be taken from Stefan Lovgren's feel-good report in National Geographic News, "Evolution and Religion can Coexist." In Lovgren's attempt to reconcile science and God, more than a little of each is lost to make the two -- couples' therapy style -- realize how they need one another. Science becomes about "how" questions and "truth"; religion becomes about "why" questions and "ethics." Science wants a beer after work; religion wants to be asked about her day...How to make this marriage work? Well, in part by representing religion as a non-denominational self-help book, quoting "deists" and believers who hold that the Bible is allegory, and ignoring tricky types like Creationists who believe they have both the why and the how.
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