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Thread #153464   Message #3596511
Posted By: DMcG
29-Jan-14 - 10:07 AM
Thread Name: BS: Darwin's Witnesses
Subject: RE: BS: Darwin's Witnesses
I think that's too simple, GUEST. You can't split the world neatly into 'religious' and 'scientific' people; plenty of people are both, and probably rather more are neither. Leaving aside the fanatical, most people of a religious bent believe the text to be true (in some sense, not necessarily literally) and they also agree with the science. One of the places I disagree with Dawkins is that he tends to assert people who try accommodate both are stupid or hypocritical, or lack the courage of their convictions. Whereas in my experience the more serious minded religious tend to think that the problem is not that one or the other is wrong, but the source of any conflict is in their understanding.