Churches that accept evolution
- Roman Catholic (close to half of all Christians world wide are Roman Catholic)
- Eastern Orthodox
- Several mainline Protestant churches (e.g. Anglican, Episcopalian, etc.)
Catholics (55% of the world's Christians)
Orthodox (17%)
Anglican (4%)
So about 76% right there. Plus other mainline Protestants. My dad, for example, has been a lifelong Methodist and he's always accepted evolution.
Christians that accept the theory of evolution:
Dr. Robert T. Bakker (paleontologist and Pentecostal preacher):http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_T._Bakker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_l8OC7RUPc
Dr. Kenneth R. Miller (cell and molecular biologist):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_R._Miller
http://tinyurl.com/qyzv262
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVRsWAjvQSg
http://www.millerandlevine.com/km/
Dr. Francis Collins (head of human genome project and evangelical):
http://www.beliefnet.com/News/Science-Religion/2006/08/God-Is-Not-Threatened-By-Our-Scientific-Adventures.aspx#
Dinesh D'Souza (conservative political commentator and author):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinesh_D%27Souza
Dr. Ian Hutchinson (professor of nuclear science and engineering at MIT):
https://www.psfc.mit.edu/~hutch/
Dr. Hans Halvorson (professor of philosophy at Princeton):
http://www.princeton.edu/~hhalvors/
Dr. Sarah Beckwith (professor of English, Duke University [Bart Ehrman's wife]):
http://english.duke.edu/people?Gurl=&Uil=2086&subpage=profile
Francisco J. Ayala (evolutionary biologist and philosopher):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_J._Ayala
Theodosius Dobzhansky (prominent geneticist and evolutionary biologist):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodosius_Dobzhansky
More here in AronRa's video (starting at this time he lists some notable Christian evolutionists):
http://tinyurl.com/m6l33no
The clergyletterproject:
http://www.theclergyletterproject.org/
Pope Francis
http://www.ctvnews.ca/world/pope-francis-evolution-is-real-god-did-not-wave-a-magic-wand-1.2076772
Catholic Ryan Denson debunks WSJ "fine-tuning" article:
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2014/12/29/debunking-wall-street-journal-god-article/
Jews that accept the theory of evolution (and abiogenesis):
Dr. Jeremy England (professor of bio-physics at MIT):https://www.quantamagazine.org/20140122-a-new-physics-theory-of-life/
http://www.salon.com/2015/01/03/god_is_on_the_ropes_the_brilliant_new_science_that_has_creationists_and_the_christian_right_terrified/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e91D5UAz-f4
More on abiogenesis here:
http://stuffconcerningstuff.blogspot.com/p/abiogenesis.html
More on evolution eductation here:
http://stuffconcerningstuff.blogspot.com/p/free-evolution-education-links.html
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Christian cell and micro biologist Kenneth R. Miller dismantles Christian Hugh Ross's assertions about the failure of the Miller-Urey experiment (1952) by first pointing out that it wasn't just a single experiment but that Miller continued adjusting his experimental setup decade after decade to match the latest science on the early conditions likely encountered on Earth about the time life began (about 3.5 billion years ago):
http://tinyurl.com/qyzv262
"I certainly would advise any fellow Christian not to stake their faith on the idea that this is a problem [abiogenesis] that science will never solve. We have a way of solving these problems." -- K. Miller
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Short List of Theists that accept the theory of evolution:
Dr. Kenneth R. Miller, cell and molecular biologist, Brown University
Dr. Robert T. Bakker, paleontologist and Pentecostal preacher, Johns Hopkins University
Dr. Francis Collins, evangelical and head of human genome project and the NIH:
Dr. Francisco J. Ayala, evolutionary biologist and philosopher, UC Irvine
Dr. Theodosius Dobzhansky, geneticist and evolutionary biologist, Columbia & Rockefeller Universities
More information on the above and other prominent Christians and theists that accept the theory of evolution:
http://stuffconcerningstuff.blogspot.com/2015/02/theist-scientists-who-believe-theory-of.html
Dr. Miller:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVRsWAjvQSg
Dr. Ken Miller's contact information (why don't you ask him?):
Telephone: 401-863-3410
e-mail: Kenneth_Miller@Brown.edu
Dr. Miller's advice to his fellow Christians, starting here and running a minute or so:
http://tinyurl.com/qyzv262
Miller testified at the Dover trial. His testimony instrumental in keeping theistic creationism (masquerading under the guise of "intelligent design") out of our public schools.
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Miller et al 2006, ranking of 34 countries on their acceptance of evolution (US comes in 33rd, just ahead of dead-last Turkey, the only Islamic country on the list):
http://www.pandasthumb.org/archives/images/Miller_etal_2006_Science_Public_Acceptance_Evo.gif
http://www.pandasthumb.org/archives/2006/08/well-at-least-w.html
Dr. Jerry Coyne (evolutionary biologist) often brings this ranking up in his talks. E.g.:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMHpc3jO0DQ
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Also, Shane Killian's excellent six part series on why evolution is a science according to the National Science Education Standards:
https://youtu.be/kjEVpkJu_5k?list=PL7C90EE51FA96E8CE&t=36
observational data, accurate predictions, logical, open to criticism, accurate information, and no presupposition. The beginning starts here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjEVpkJu_5k&list=PL7C90EE51FA96E8CE
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Response to Art Deco, Feb 3, 2016, on Scott Sumner's blog:
"Your complaint is not that a given worldview is pre-scientific, but that it is not contrivedly secular or atheistic."
Absolutely false. I was raised on a remote desert government lab where the civilian bread-winning population was almost entirely composed of engineers, scientists and mathematicians. They were also almost all theists, specifically Christians, with a few Jews here and there. What they were NOT were science-denying fundamentalists. I never met a fundamentalist face to face until I was 18, and it took me aback when I did. My dad still lives in that community: he's long retired, still goes to the church there with his wife, and neither one of them can understand fundamentalist resistance to basic science.
So I've got ZERO PROBLEM with theists (BTW, a person can be both a theist and secular). I have a problem with science deniers, who tend to be fundamentalists, and who tend to be concentrated in the US (at least the Christian ones). Miller el al 2006, ranked 34 countries according to acceptance of evolution, and the <a href="http://www.pandasthumb.org/archives/images/Miller_etal_2006_Science_Public_Acceptance_Evo.gif">US came in 33rd... just ahead of Turkey (the only Islamic country on the list)</a>. If people want to believe in creationism, it's no business of mine, but I'll never find such a person qualified to be in a position of secular authority in government, especially one like ours that possesses nuclear weapons.
There are many Christians and theists that I admire that I'd have no problem with being in a position of governmental power. For example:
Cell and micro biologist Dr. Kenneth R. Miller of Brown University, whose testimony was instrumental in stopping an attempted takeover of science education in public schools (Dover) with theistic creationism under the guise of so-called "intelligent design."
"I certainly would advise any fellow Christian not to stake their faith on the idea that this is a problem [abiogenesis] that science will never solve. We have a way of solving these problems." -- Dr. Kenneth R. Miller
Or biophysicist Dr. Jeremy England of MIT whose done some cutting edge work on abiogenesis.
Or....
Dr. Francis Collins, head of the human genome project
Dr. Robert T. Bakker (paleontologist and Pentecostal preacher)
Dr. Ian Hutchinson (professor of nuclear science and engineering at MIT)
Dr. Hans Halvorson (professor of philosophy at Princeton)
Francisco J. Ayala (evolutionary biologist and philosopher)
Theodosius Dobzhansky (prominent geneticist and evolutionary biologist)
Pope Francis
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