BELIEF IN EVOLUTION

Belief in Evolution
Some conservative religious believers fear that teaching evolution breeds immorality and also invites "God's judgment" to fall upon society as a whole. But what were the morals of society like in the "good old days" before Darwin? And did the Creator refrain from smiting believers in creationism with horrific diseases? The answer in both cases is, "No." Simply rent the DVD, The Gangs of New York, or read the books, Moll Flanders, Tom Jones, Les Miserables, Candide, or just about anything by Charles Dickens to get a taste of the immorality and diseases that ran amuck in the "good old days."
Imagine half of all children dying before they have reached their eighth birthday. (The French naturalist, Buffon, who lived prior to Darwin's day lamented, "Half the children born never reach the age of eight.")
Imagine children crippled by (or dying from) the simplest untreated infections, not to mention tuberculosis, small pox, chicken pox, polio, strep throat, diphtheria, typhoid, measles, mumps, scarlet fever, yellow fever, the flu, pneumonia, cholera, meningitis, tetanus and staphylococcus infections. (Before smallpox was eradicated in the latter half of the 20th century it had disfigured, blinded, and killed hundreds of millions, most of them children.)
Health conditions of the population during past centuries, statistics on disease past and present, and changing views of some Christians toward Evolution and Science.

Michael Denton, is now an Evolutionist
Michael Denton, author of Evolution: A Theory in Crisis, is now an evolutionist according to his second book: Nature's Destiny.

Eden and Evolution
Religious critics of evolution are wrong about its flaws.
But are they right that it threatens belief in a loving God?
By Shankar Vedantam

Looking At How Creationists Quote Evolutionists
Corrections of Creationists' mis-use of out of context quotes used against Evolution.

Teaching Evolution
Mr. Witwer, do you think that a belief in evolution and a belief in a divine creator are necessarily exclusive?

Science is no longer a search for *truth*?
Philosophy and theology are a search for *truth* Science is a search for knowledge. Invoking miracles to explain how we get from 'this to that,' adds nothing to human knowledge.

Meeting God and Asking God Scientific Questions
Questions a Scientist would ask God if they were given the opportunity.