". "Evolution is corrosive to religion. And vice versa. A true understanding of Darwinism is deeply corrosive to religious faith."

(Citing Dawkins upthread)

Both Dawkins and the poster of this link are being just a tad short-sighted here, I believe. For one thing this statement is ONLY true for certain values of "religion" but NOT all of them. And, probably, it is only true for certain versions of "evolution", but perhaps not all--I don't know enough different versions of evolutionary theory to say..

Dawkins may be saying, however that because certain versions of evolutionary theory focus on mechanism and materialistic interpretations, that the statements are true for materialism. In this case he should say that "Materialism is corrosive to religion. And vice versa. A true understanding of materialism is deeply corrosive to religious faith."

To make it a little clearer, the issue of causation is not included OR excluded in basic Darwinism's propositions about how species win or lose over time. But it is certainly eliminated in the extreme versions of materialism which include the paradoxical fact of thinking about materialism.