From today’s TFN News Clips:
“We believe that among God’s good gifts are human minds capable of critical thought and that the failure to fully employ this gift is a rejection of the will of our Creator. To argue that God’s loving plan of salvation for humanity precludes the full employment of the God-given faculty of reason is to attempt to limit God, an act of hubris.”
— Michael Zimmerman, dean of Butler University’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in Indiana and an evolutionary biologist by training, quoted in an article about this weekend’s Evolution Sunday. Zimmerman is the creator of Evolution Sunday and the founder of The Clergy Letter Project. The letter has been signed by more than 13,000 religious leaders, stating that those signing it accept evolution as a foundational scientific truth.
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