'Paul Wallace wrote recently in Religion Dispatches, in a piece titled "Top Ten Peacemakers in the Science-Religion Wars," that 2011 is the "beginning of the end of the war between science and religion."
"Creationism," he says, "cannot last." And the so-called "new" atheists on the other end of the spectrum are not only not new any longer -- if they ever were new in the first place -- they are "getting old." Wallace looks hopefully for an expansion of the "middle ground" where science and religion co-exist in harmony. The outliers that oppose this harmony, he says, "continue to wage battle but they look increasingly irrelevant."'
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