Which most closely resembles your current belief system?

God created man pretty much in his present form at one time within the last 10,000

years.

Man has developed over millions of years from less advanced forms of life, but God guided this process, including man's creation.

Man has developed over millions of years from less advanced forms of life. God had no part in this process.

Dec 2010 Gallup Poll

Belief system> Creationist view Theistic evolution Naturalistic Evolution

Beliefs-->  

Education level

God created man pretty much in

his present form at one time within

the last 10,000 years.

Man has developed over millions of years from less advanced forms of life, but God

guided this process,

including man's creation.

Man has developed over millions of years from less advanced forms of life. God had no part in this

process.

High school or less 47% 34% 9%

Some college 44% 36% 16%

College graduate 37% 38% 21%

Post-graduate 22% 49% 25%

http://galluppoll.com

Scientists (1997)

Belief system Creationist view Theistic evolution Naturalistic Evolution

Group of adults

God created man pretty much in his present form at one time within the last 10,000 years.

Man has developed over millions of years from less advanced forms of life, but God guided this process, including man's creation.

Man has developed over millions of years from less advanced forms of life. God had no part in this process.

Everyone 44% 39% 10%

Scientists 5% 40% 55%

Agree or disagree?

• Evolution and religion are incompatible.

• Religion and science (evolution) are very different things. In science, only natural causes are used to explain natural phenomena, while religion deals with beliefs that are beyond the natural world.

• The misconception that one always has to choose between science and religion is incorrect. Of course, some religious beliefs explicitly contradict science (e.g., the belief that the world and all life on it was created in six literal days); however, most religious groups have no conflict with the theory of evolution or other scientific findings. In fact, many religious people, including theologians, feel that a deeper understanding of nature actually enriches their faith. Moreover, in the scientific community there are thousands of scientists who are devoutly religious and also accept evolution.

http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evosite/misconceps/IVAandreligion.shtml

Current Director for the NIH sees no conflictHe first trained as a chemist, then became a physician, discovering God while trying to sort out the mysteries of life and death at age 27 during his residency at the University of North Carolina. He later landed at the University of Michigan, where he drew attention for codiscovering the gene mutations for cystic fibrosis in 1989. In 1993, he received an unexpected invitation from then director of the NIH, Bernadine Healy, to succeed James Watson as the head of the Human Genome Project--which Collins first declined, but later accepted.

He believes that God created life through evolution (and he rejects intelligent design and creationsim). However, Collins chose to use the term BioLogos because of the association of evolution with atheism that occurs in some religious communities

The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief (Free Press, 2006), spent many weeks on the New York Times bestseller list.