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[QUOTE]We commissioned Karen Armstrong and Richard Dawkins to respond independently to the question "Where does evolution leave God?" Neither knew what the other would say. Here are the results.

Karen Armstrong says we need God to grasp the wonder of our existence

Richard Dawkins has been right all along, of course

 

I retract my statement that is now a part of your signature, Senor. ;-)

One of the best pieces of journalism I've ever read. Thanks for sharing this!

 

I just recently read Dawkins book "The God Delusion" it has changed the way I look at many things in my everyday life

 

Nice, very open and unbiased article.

I've had the God Delusion on the backburner for awhile, because its a hard book to read in your spare time in small doses because you forget what you read. Need to get around to finishing it.

 

Very interesting read.

 

About half way through it gets a lot easier to read. I read it in just under a month. I had a hardtime putting it down to go to work and stuff

 

Good stuff, another of Dawkins's books, The Selfish Gene, is also really interesting. I believe in evolution but I think we ignore Lamarck's ideas far too often, as well. Our genes hold our potential, but it is our environment that dictates much of our development. I do not believe in god, but I do believe in spirituality; perhaps energy would be a better word. If we are products of our environment, and so many of us "feel" something greater than us is occurring, then there must be something controlling all of this. I believe we are moving closer to that something as creatures of the universe.

 

Great agruements. The selfish gene is a strong theory, and it makes a lot of sence.

 

Many believe that church and science can co-exist. I remember reading Angels and Demons by Dan Brown and that was one of the points in the book.

 

I kind of had to shake my head at both of them. As a Christian, my belief in God, a creation, and an evolution all readily co-exist within the pages of Scripture. I'll leave it at that.