We all know that science and religion can often be at odds with each other. Some examples include Evolution vs creation, DNA and the Book of Mormon; the list could be endless. In a recent comment, Book1830 makes the claim that Science and Religion (he refers to them as Scholarship and Apologetics) are at odds with each other. His summarized comments are below:
Entries Tagged 'Evolution' ↓
Science and Religion: Are they always opposing?
June 29th, 2008 — Archeology, Evolution, Intellectualism, Mormon, Old Testament, Science, Scripture
NY Geography - Part 5
June 3rd, 2008 — Archeology, Book of Mormon, Creationism, Evolution, Geography, History, Mormon, New York
Ok, I’m ready to lay this to rest. It doesn’t seem to generate much interest, so here is my final post about my review of http://www.bookofmormongeography.info
I thought I’d post the more egregious errors here, instead of going section by section as I had originally intended to do. I just checked the site, and got a chuckle out of this little exchange:
Evolution goes to church
February 8th, 2008 — Creationism, Evolution
Of course it won’t be at an LDS church, but check out Darwin Weekend.
Views on Evolution
January 25th, 2008 — Creationism, Evolution, Intelligent Design
I know the LDS church has no official views on evolution. I had someone ask me what I thought about it, and frankly, I haven’t given much thought about it. As I understand, there are people at BYU who believe in evolution, but I think they believe that evolution has limits, and don’t rule out that God created the world.
So how do people reconcile evolution with creationism? What do you think about “intelligent design”?
