Increasing acceptance among clerics of evolution.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20522-american-muslim-clerics-sign-up-for-evolution.html?DCMP=OTC-rss

Very nice to see that more and more clerics--Christian, Jewish, Muslim--are openly accepting that evolution is a fact and creation is a myth.  There is no conflict between faith and science! 

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My brother the Mad Padre wrote this.  I find it interesting because it talks about the Creation story, Adam and Eve, evolution and so on. 

Evolution Weekend

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-zimmerman/evolution-weekend-an-oppo_b_819153.html

More about bridging the gap. 

evolution-creation debate, chapter whatever. . .

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/30/jack-kingston-evolution_n_815909.html?ir=Religion

There will always be people on both sides of this issue.  And there's others, like me, who see a common ground.  I do believe though, that we have to make up our own minds and believe whatever makes sense to us.  Enough said (by me!)

There is a short video clip at the end of this article.

Spider-Scorpion discovered

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/06/post_605_n_792672.html

Very interesting piece about a tiny creature found in a cave.  Scientists think that it had been evolving there for thousands of years.  It makes my already confused mind even more confused.

missing monkey-humans

http://www.newsweek.com/blogs/the-gaggle/2010/09/27/an-evolutionary-biologist-answers-christine-o-donnell-s-question-about-the-missing-monkey-humans.html?obref=obnetwork

There's a lot of confusion about evolution because we are unable to see things happening in our short life-times.  As children we have very short attention spans; this is why entertainment is fed to us in bite-sized cartoon form rather than movies or, even better, books.  Sometimes as adults this feature of our child-hood carries over in part because we cannot or will not see the whole picture.  We think that the description of creation as described in the book of Genesis (six days and all that) is exactly how it all happened, and that six thousand years ago.  But we should really look at the evidence.  It isn't all black-and-white.  Elsewhere in this blog are excerpts from a series called "Discovering Religion"; this is an excellent series which seeks to help explain about evolution and the need to be more open-minded when looking at evidence;  more from the same series are to be posted.