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Interesting. Are we pushing the idea that the “scientitsts” should be authoritative on whether people’s religious beliefs are “correct” now?
What I think is funny about this particular thread is that it’s framed as revealing the “The Dirty Little Secret” that “Religious Faith and Evolution Are Incompatible,” as though Coyne is giving away something all evos know but won’t admit. And yet, when you go to Coyne’s original article, you find that it’s a review of two books by religious evolutionists, one a professor at a Christian school and the other a practicing Catholic (a fact the ICR summary leaves out, of course). One book is even subtitled “How to be a Christian and Believe in Evolution.” So in this little corner of the debate, the “little secret” is that Christian evolutionists outnumber anti-religious evolutionists two to one. But that reality wouldn’t suit ICR’s purposes, so they try to spin it away.