>>>Perhaps a sign that the religious right doesn't have as tight a hold as some people are charging:
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>>>http://www.cnn.com/2006/EDUCATION/01/04/evolution.showdown.ap/index.html
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>>Why don't the "intelligent designers" just back off, and everyone compromise with "God was at/the cause of the Big Bang, and chance and evolution took over from there"? My 10-year-old's comfortable with this (in fact she even proposed it to me when we were discussing the subject)
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>Because the timelines don't work. Evolution of man started much (much) earlier from present day than did the creation of man. But, there is probably some argument about God's time vs Man's time that I can't quite formulate right now. Need more coffee...

No, they want to back off the whole Man thing, allowing we're not the be all and end all of "creation", allowing that there's a whole load of other neat creation going on. 'twould be enough that some "divine" hand started the whole ball rolling (even if we know it was due to the total implosion of a previous universe)