re: #11 Sol Berdinowitz

The theological debate is pretty much this: the Catholic Church and many “progressive” Christians see no conflict between Evolution and Genesis, they understand that science is about how we came about and the Bible is about why.

Fundamentalists and Biblical literalists see a conflict between Evolution and Creation and are willing to reject science, math and logic in order to make their case against the former.

the way some progressive christians put it is like this:

if you accept the scientific position on evolution, god is a subtle architect who designed an elegant mechanism that operates with unfathomable intricacy; if you take genesis literally, god is a sideshow magician who goes abracadabra, poof! and there it is