{"id":7912,"date":"2004-02-18T12:39:31","date_gmt":"2004-02-18T12:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2004\/02\/finding_darwins_god.html"},"modified":"2004-02-18T12:39:31","modified_gmt":"2004-02-18T12:39:31","slug":"finding_darwins_god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2004\/02\/finding_darwins_god.html","title":{"rendered":"Finding Darwin’s God"},"content":{"rendered":"

An interview with CT<\/a><\/p>\n

Ken Miller is professor of biology at Brown University. In addition to his specialized research, Miller\u2014a practicing Roman Catholic\u2014is the author of Finding Darwin’s God: A Scientist’s Search for Common Ground Between God and Evolution (HarperCollins, 1999). He is also the coauthor of a series of high school and college texts and has frequently debated opponents of evolution (see www.millerandlevine.com\/km\/evol\/). Karl Giberson spoke with Miller about his faith, his public role as a defender of evolution, and the integrity of science.<\/em><\/p>\n

Did you ever have any misgivings about the prospects of integrating evolution with your Catholic faith?<\/strong><\/p>\n

It’s an interesting question to ask, and the simple answer to it is no. I benefited from the way that Catholics are generally brought up, which is to believe, almost from the get-go, that there is no inherent conflict between faith and reason, between religious doctrine and science. If science seeks truth and religion reveals truth, then how can there be a conflict between these two aspects of the truth?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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