'I am often asked if I believe in evolution. Sometimes the question comes from either evolution-denying religious persons or faith-disparaging scientific ones attempting to trap me into failing whatever faith- or logic-based purity code they are burdened with.
Most times, though, it is asked with no ulterior motive other than to quell an existential dilemma. It is a question born from the confusion of faithful and modern people who have been led to believe that religion and science, especially evolution, are completely incompatible.
The anti-science religious voice is a minority, but a well-funded and vocal one, and thus much louder than the religious majority who have quietly accepted scientific discoveries for centuries. Some from the anti-religion school receive far more media time than religion-tolerating scientists. And thus those in the grand middle - from the faithful who accept science to the scientific who are not anti-religion - can be easily confused.'
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