Science or God? Evolution or creation? Is it an either-or proposition?

Very often it has been either-or as played out in the culture wars.

However, in this 150th anniversary year of Charles Darwin’s The Origin of Species, National Public Radio has done some interesting work.

Under “Darwin Finds Some Followers In The Pulpits” by Barbara Bradley Hagerty (2/11/2009)the author follows the controversy as it is playing out:

• in The Evolution Weekend, in which clergy sign a statement affirm that believe in science and God don’t have to be contradictory, or self-contradictory;
• in Jewish responses to The Evolution Weekend; and
• among Bible Belt oilfield workers who go to conservative, Bible-believing churches and who are confronted with geologic timescales every day in their oil exploration and production.

This is all pretty fascinating, partly because I just wrote a book on the creation-evolution controversy called The Late Great Ape Debate.

Say, I’m wondering: Do you have an opinion on all this that you’d like to share here on this blog?