Comment Chapman University.... (Score 1) 1226
is a top-ranking Christian university which promotes a correct scientific understanding of evolution. They recently opened an Evolution Education Research Center in conjunction with Harvard and McGill.
Pepperdine University and Wheaton College are two other prominent Christian colleges which teach evolution.
Sites such as http://truecreation.info/ http://theistic-evolution.org/ and http://biologos.org/ illustrate that there are Christians out there who have reconciled faith and science.
Sounds good, right?
That said, I still believe that the problem won't go away any time soon. Why? Power and money. The organizations behind the modern-day creationism movement (Institute for Creation Research, Answers in Genesis, Creation Science Evangelism, and The Discovery Institute) are multimillion-dollar Christian textbook publishing houses -- or they supply the "science" for other homeschool textbook publishing houses.
Even when it lands them in jail for tax evasion, they have a cult-like following:
As much as it seems like they're a united front, they love to criticize and sue each other:
http://www.icr.org/article/intelligent-design-or-scientific-creationism/
Legal controversy between AiG and CMI
It's not about the individual believer anymore. It's not about worldviews. It's not even about the churches! It's about the money-driven organizations that are feeding them. They've sucked people in using slick propaganda, books and Web sites, and encourage people to not just teach this stuff, but to teach other people to teach this stuff.
In short, it's not any different from any modern political movement.