One statement contains a reference to a deity and one does not
Facts are facts.
Maybe but most of what people think are facts - are not.
If your religion is threatened by the findings of science
They aren't.
But thanks for taking an interest in my personal religious beliefs
Gould is one person. Evolution is not Gould, and evolution makes no reference to a deity or lack thereof.
Evolution is a forensic statement about history, and it is a process. It is true that the history asserted by evolution conflicts with a literal reading of Genesis.
It is also true that physics conflicts with a literal reading of the Bible. Same with astronomy. Same with geology.
Medicine overturns the statement in the Bible that women shall suffer in childbirth.
How are these not anti-religious?