“What Has Changed Since the First Evolution Weekend?”
Read a Feb. 11, 2011, column posted by the website Science + Religion Today about an increase in congregations embracing the observance of Evolution Weekend since it first started in 2006.
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“Death Anxiety Shapes Views on Evolution”
Read “Death Anxiety Shapes Views on Evolution,” posted March 30, 2011, by the online magazine Miller-McCune.com.
“Evangelicals Question The Existence of Adam And Eve”
Read an Aug. 9, 2011, NPR story about the efforts of Evangelicals to reconcile religious doctrine with science.
“Evangelical Evolutionists Meet in New York”
Read a March 30, 2012 story in Christianity Today about a symposium of evangelicals who endorse the evolutionary process as God’s means of creation.
“Science in America: Religious Belief and Public Attitudes”
Read a December 2007 analysis by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life of American attitudes on evolution and biblical creation. As the authors write, “public opinion polling over the last few decades has shown that between 40 percent and 50 percent of Americans consistently reject the very idea of natural evolution, largely on the grounds […]
“Poll finds evangelicals stand apart on evolution, climate change”
A September 2011 survey by the Public Religion Research Institute, in partnership with Religion News Service, showed that a majority of Americans (57 percent) believe in evolution. But white evangelicals and Tea Party members — a core constituency for the GOP — are significantly less likely to believe in evolution.
“Poll: Pastors Oppose Evolution, Split on Earth’s Age”
A January 2012 survey of Protestant pastors, conducted by LifeWay Research, shows that by a wide margin most of them believe that God did not use evolution to create humans and think Adam and Eve were literal people. It also found that ministers are almost evenly split on whether the Earth is thousands of years old.
Lee M. Williams
Lee M. Williams is professor of marital and family therapy in the School of Leadership and Education Sciences at the University of San Diego. He is the author of several articles on interchurch couples, including “Premarital Counseling With Interchurch Couples: Clinical Implications From Recent Research,” published in 2002 in the Journal of Couple and Relationship Therapy.
Judith K. Balswick
Judith K. Balswick is senior professor of marital and family therapy in the School of Psychology at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, Calif.