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Theory of Evolution and Religion: Coexistence or Conflict ?

British Council in collaboration with The Science Newspaper, The Romanian Cultural Institute, and The Association for the Dialogue between Science and Theology in Romania have organized o public debate on evolution and religion.

 

The debate took place on Tuesday 16 March at the Romanian Cultural Institute, 38 Aleea Alexandru, sector 1, Bucharest.

 

Romanian and British specialists in science, philosophy, and theology answered to questions that concern the scientific community as well as the public: Theory of evolution and religion can coexist, or are in conflict? Can a believer say that the theory of evolution is true?

 

The public debate was part of the British Council's Darwin Now project.

 

 

 

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Facts

The theory of evolution does not deal with the origin of life. Evolution refers to changing of living creatures and their diversification in time.

The immense diversity of living world could be seen as that of the human languages. Human language is based on about 30 letters, while the diversity of living creatures is based on a vocabulary of 4 words: DNA has only four letters that are combined into words. These words are nothing but genes.


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