Science and Religion Walk Into a Bar
A Pastor and a Philosopher Walk into a Bar
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The Problem With Random Genetic Mutations
The first episode of the Cosmos reboot is all about this. If you ask a scientist to explain evolutionary theory, they're going to get something along the lines of there are these random genetic mutations that fuel natural selection. And at bottom, it's random. That does sound a little inconsistent on the surface with how most religious people think about the world. We're talking about a conflict between the fact of the world revealed by science and a particular theology which says God is good.
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