March 2, 2007

Biologist Suggests Downplaying Darwin

By SUSAN BROWN

In his book The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins insisted that scientists should work to dispel the idea that God exists. Without religion, Mr. Dawkins has said, the conflict between scientists' beliefs about evolution and the fundamentalist religious belief that a supernatural intelligence created all life would vanish. Now an evolutionary biologist has proposed a different tack. At a meeting in February, he suggested that scientists might win the argument by ditching

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