That article certainly didn't convince me that evolution is a religion.
Do you know why?
1: It says that Scientists are afraid of arguing with creationsits/intelligent design activits. Which isn't true considering in several court cases such as "Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District" courts ruled against the intelligent design movement.
2: The assertion that Science should reject God is a logical choice. Science is about the natural world. God cannot be proven and measured and supposedly exists in a heigher plane or beyond the physical world or however you'd like to describe it. If God was considered the being that controlled unexplained phenomina then we wouldn't be where we are today as we'd never need to look into why things happen, because God did it!
3: "As the creationists claim, belief in modern evolution makes atheists of people. One can have a religious view that is compatible with evolution only if the religious view is indistinguishable from atheism."
Ahh so thats the real problem. Many people that subscribe to the view that evolution is a valid thoery discard their belief in God. And anyone who thinks that they aren't incompatible is basically an Atheist aswell! Thats simply not the case, many people in the world are both Christian and think Evolution is a valid theory. Even the vatican, a notoriously conservative organisation has no problem with evolution.
"“This clash is an absurdity because on one hand there is much scientific proof in favor of evolution, which appears as a reality that we must see and which enriches our understanding of life and being as such.” Pope Benedict XVI Do you really think the pope is an Atheist?
The conflict may be too difficult for some, but it isn't for the Pope. So this absolutism is just silly.
Again. Injecting something from outside of the physical testable world just simply isn't something that Science will ever do as it simply isn't something that Science deals with.
