Who Said What? Statements on Evolution and Creationism

Who Wrote What? Organizational Positions on Evolution

Here's a quiz regarding different organizations and their position in the creation/evolution discussion. To take this quiz, make your best guess at who said what.
Based off of Leonard C. Kirk and Ronald Lieberman's article in Creation/Evolution Issue 39, located here: http://ncse.com/webfm_send/1169

"Cosmogony itself speaks to us of the origins of the universe and its makeup, not in order to provide us with a scientific treatise but in order to state the correct relationship of man with God and with the universe. Sacred scripture wishes simply to declare that the world was created by God, and in order to teach this truth, it expresses itself in the terms of the cosmology in use at the time of the writer ... The sacred book ... does not ... teach how heaven was made but how one goes to heaven." Charles Darwin Patrick J. Buchanan Bertrand Russell Pope John Paul II "Man learns from two books: the universe for the human study of things created by God; and the Bible, for the study of God's superior will and truth. One belongs to reason, and the other to faith. Between them there is no clash." Charles Darwin Pope Pius XII Pat Robertson Bertrand Russell The Encyclopedia ... cites ... theologian George Forell's interpretation of "the doctrine of creation as expressing a theory not about the origin of the world" but as describing man's situation in the world." Encyclopedia of the Episcopal Church Encyclopedia of the Lutheran Church Encyclopedia of Agnosticism Encyclopedia of Humanism "[T]he principles and concepts of biological evolution are basic to understanding science ... students who are not taught these principles, or who hear 'creationism' presented as a scientific alternative, will not be receiving an education based on modern scientific knowledge, ... ignorance about evolution will seriously undermine their understanding of the world and the natural laws governing it, and their introduction to other explanations described as 'scientific' will give them false ideas about scientific methods and criteria." American Association for Advancement of Science Biological Society of America Central Conference of American Rabbis "We testify to our belief that the historic Christian doctrine of the Creator God does not depend on any particular account of the origins of life for its truth and validity ... The assumption that the Bible contains scientific data about origins misreads a literature which emerged in a pre-scientific age." American Association for Advancement of Science United Church Board of Homeland Ministries Episcopalian

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Welcome

I was baptized on April 4th, 1984. I've been raised as a Catholic, and as a young child I became entranced with dinosaurs. Imagining what they would have looked like, how they would have moved, what they would have sounded like...and longing with all my young heart that I could see one. Attending a very traditional school, my love of dinosaurs and my faith started to come into friction...my beloved science documentaries talked about millions of years ago, whereas my teachers at school talked about thousands of years ago. The word evolution came up, and I remember thinking how ridiculous it was to think that a species could turn into something else. A dog would never become a rabbit, that was silly!

I slowly grew in my understanding of both science and faith and received guidance from many sources, from clergy, museums, books, and documentaries. When I became a student of geology in university, I knew I'd have to face these questions head-on. I was frightened that studying geology would directly confront, conflict with, and destroy the faith which had given me peace and guidance and meaning my whole life. To my surprise, both faith and science both stood up to my scrutiny, compatible, beautiful and strong. I know understood some of the profound differences between the two.

I want to share some of the results of my journey thus far, and go into some new territory, both for my own benefit, and hopefully to share it with others who have similar questions.

My aim is not to preach to those who profess science as their only belief: the quest for faith is a deeply personal one rooted in experience, and all the things in my life which prove to me that God exists and loves me would never prove anything to someone else. My aim is to reach those who have faith, those who hear stories daily illustrating the illusional conflict between science and religion, the thought that one has to be rejected to accept the other. This popular belief is very dangerous to people of faith, and society as a whole.

I hope you gain some benefit from my notes. Please comment with any thoughts or disagreements you might have, as well as topics which you might want to see explored in the future. I intend to write at least one article a month, to be posted at the beginning of each month.