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Churches celebrate Darwin`s birthday
By UPI
Feb 12, 2006, 19:00 GMT
NEW YORK, NY, United States (UPI) — Nearly 450 Christian churches in the United States are celebrating the 197th birthday of Charles Darwin Sunday.
The churches say Darwin`s theory of biological evolution is compatible with faith and that Christians have no need to choose between religion and science, the Chicago Tribune reported.
‘It`s to demonstrate, by Christian leaders and members of the clergy, that you don`t have to make that choice. You can have both,’ said Michael Zimmerman, dean of the College of Letters and Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, who organized the ‘Evolution Sunday’ event.
A variety of denominational and non-denominational churches, including Methodist, Lutheran, Episcopalian, Presbyterian, Unitarian, Congregationalist, United Church of Christ, Baptist and a host of community churches, are participating in the event, which grew out of Zimmerman`s The Clergy Letter Project, another effort to dispel the perception among many Christians that faith and evolution are mutually exclusive, the newspaper said.
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