Is Evolution a form of religion

If you insist…

I can only speak for myself about the certainty I display. I’m a scientist and I try to express the degree of certainty that I have in conclusions drawn within my own field of expertise. Since I am inclined to be unusually skeptical (compared to other scientists) about the certainty of my conclusions, you can take my certainty as a conservative reflection of what a typical scientist in the field would say.

I’ve never heard that maxim. It appears to have been coined by someone who doesn’t understand science.

No one has proclaimed science to be a god here – you’re making groundless accusations against others because you disagree with them.

I have no idea what this means.

Again, no one has suggested that you do any bowing.

Evolution is a fact in the ordinary sense of something that’s so well established that we can treat it as true. That doesn’t apply to everything about evolution but it does apply to the common descent of all animals, for example. You are completely free to disagree about the validity of evolution, but you’re not free to accuse me of making evolution a god just because I accept the scientific consensus in my own field.

Evolutionary biologists (among many other biologists) care quite a bit about evolution. We are also thoroughly convinced that common descent is true.

Some of us Christians here have spent decades both learning about evolution in depth and thinking about its relationship to Christian faith.

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