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Posted By bowsnumba1 10 months, 1 week ago in Science & TechnologyA special report on Darwin’s theory of evolution. That insight is almost universally accepted by scientists. But it directly contradicts the Bible’s creation story, and so it remains under attack by many people of faith. Indeed, Americans are almost evenly divided between those who accept Darwin’s theory and those who do not. Why is evolution still such a controversial idea?
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Religion is generally slow to accept change, take the reluctant acceptence of a heliocentric solar system. It took nearly 400 years before the Catholic Church forgave Galileo for daring to report that the Earth orbited the Sun, not the other way around, as the church taught. Today that controversy is largely forgotten, with most relgious folks having no problems believing in their god(s) while accepting a heliocentric solar system, there are even those who claim The Bible told of a heliocentric solar system all along.
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I have no doubts that something similar will occur with evolution.
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