That's an interesting question, Snoop, and it may be most interesting because not long ago it didn't occur to anyone to ask it.
I was born and raised Catholic during the '60's and '70's, and went to Catholic schools straight through college. In all those years the subject of "believing in evolution" never came up; not even once. Also, in my early adult life in the '80s I circulated among people of many faiths, and we had many a theological discussion -- some of them pretty heated -- and yet evolution still never came up. Evolution was, through all those years, simply an accepted fact. Sure, there were always creationists, and will always be creationists, but society in general had come to see evolution as a real thing, and there was little debate about it, much less people choosing to believe in it. Then the '90's, and the rise of the christian right, came, and creationism once again regained popularity ( I think it started in Kansas), and evolution eventually morphed into a theory that you had to believe in. In short, the U.S. (and other parts of the world, I imagine) is in the middle of another cycle of religious fundamentalism, and evolution simply does not fit in the fundamentalist formula. In another 20 years, after society has swung back to one that takes their Bibles a bit less literally, people will probably wonder what the fuss was all about.
I for one still have a lot of trouble with the debate, because I'm one of those people who have no problem with evolution being a process of creation. After all, if, say, an artist wants to paint a picture, he doesn't just look at the canvas and have the picture instantly appear. No, he must go through a long process of sketching, priming the canvas, mixing paints, waiting for layers to dry, scraping off mistakes, etc., before the picture is finally done; and that process could take a very long time. Imagine the processes involved in setting an entire universe in motion, then making it amenable to life, and then finding just the right formula for biological life, and then working that life into beings that can appreciate His existence.... that sounds like a very long process indeed, and evolution certainly could have been a tool for helping it along.
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