I saw this in the St. Andrew's Cathedral Welcome Centre. It is the church on top of Cityhall MRT, if you don't know where it is. God and evolution, this is a very interesting question, and also one of the reason that I don't buy the Christian belief!
For me, a student brought up and educated in Darwin's competitive jungle and who studied biology as major, I really don't think it is a good idea for me to throw all these theories away and believe the Legend of Genesis. Because if I do so, I would feel like denying everything in my past and pretending to believe something that I acctually think is stupid(Sorry, Christian folks, I really don't have another proper word for this)! And that would be the last thing I want to do! I know it is another kind of religion if you just be obedience to the science and don't doubt about it at all! And also, there are still scientists who are not buying the concept of evolution, but the bottomline is science makes sence to me, at lease from what I know, both about science and religion! I just don't think it is a very good idea to have some superman to create this world in seven days including ourselves!
But to some people, God and evolution don't necessarily contradict with each other, such as Francis S. Collin, who is a leading scientist working on the Human Genome Project, and yet believes in God and even wrote a book called The Language Of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief. Here is a interview with Stephen Colbert.
From what he said, 40 percent of working scientists are believers of their personal Gods. That means this is not some kind of rare issue, this is a very common issue faced by the science community as well as our whole society! Even up to now, schools in U.S are still struggling between evolution classes and theology, they just don't know what they should teach their next generation! It is the worst in U.S, why? maybe because of their deeply rooted religious tradition back to the moment Mayflower landed on America soil.
Religion is a very interest topic! I believe in religious freedom, but that doesn't stop me saying something about religions that I don't believe, right? As for my own religion, I used to joked around with my friends with this: "I am an atheist, but ghost scare me to death!"
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