Today is Charles Darwin’s birthday. A few people need reminding that outside the Old South of the USA, the majority of the world’s Christians have no problem with Darwin’s theory of evolution.
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Yes, a majority do feel that way, but it’s important not to take our eye off the ball.
In my unremarkable Midlands town, there have been six events put on by churches – admittedly not the CoE or Catholic churches – in the past year that I’m aware of with either an openly anti-evolution theme or the more insidious lie of Intelligent Design (which is not theistic evolution but creationism in disguise).
Ten miles away, a bunch of creationists are attempting to open a faith school, which even if it’s successful will be banned from teaching creationism in science classes, but which experience tells us will be giving evolution a kicking in RE classes (“We have to teach you this stuff by law, but this is what we think of it”).
The model followed is one called the “wedge strategy”, which is to try to get a toe in the door (to mix metaphors) and then push from there. Those who oppose this established scientific theory aren’t stopping, and they’re both devious and committed to do their best to impose their religious agenda on the rest of us.