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Roughgarden, a Stanford
biology professor and author of Evolution's Rainbow, is impatient with
the current tone of creation/evolution debates, but takes them seriously as an
expression of a "pent-up urge for talking about God" in American
public life.
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Americans answered the atrocities of September
11, overwhelmingly, with faith. Attacked in the name of God, they turned to God
for comfort; in the week after the attacks, nearly 70 percent said they were
praying more than usual.
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Nowadays, when legislation supporting promising scientific research falls to
religious opposition, the forces of creationism press school districts to teach
doctrine on a par with evolution and even the Big Bang is denounced as
out-of-compliance with Bible-based calculations for the age of the earth,
scientists have to be brave to talk about religion.
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Charles Darwin and Stanford biologist Joan Roughgarden have three things in
common: a fascination with barnacles, a passionate desire to understand
evolution, and a knack for controversy.
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The earth is in danger, according to authors E.O. Wilson of Harvard
(The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth) and Joan Roughgarden of
Stanford (Evolution and Christian Faith: Reflections of an Evolutionary
Biologist). Ecological disaster threatens everything because all of
life is interrelated. That is true no matter what position one takes on
human origins or evolution.
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