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Rehashing the Evolution Debate

May 31, 2007

Sam Brownback, the Republican senator from Kansas, penned an op-ed piece in today's New York Times clarifying his thoughts on evolution. Brownback rejects evolution (though he is fine with microevolution) that argues that people came about as a quirk of fate, rather than through divine causality, and says that argument is "atheistic theology posing as science." In reasoned discussions of the origin of people, Brownback says he wants room for faith, philosophy, and theology.

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