“A writer for the CSM predicts that the coming century will be “very secular and religiously antagonistic,” with intolerance of Christianity “ris[ing] to levels many of us have not believed possible in our lifetimes.” Otherwise observers have noted the ever-growing, relentless attack on the Christian religion by forces who reject the existence of authority of God. The extent and nature of religious devotion in this nation is changing. The tide of public opinion in favor of religion is receding, and this probably portends public pressures for laws that will impinge on religious freedom.

Atheism has always been hostile to religion, such as in its arguments that freedom of or for religion should include freedom from religion. Atheism’s threat rises as its proponents grow in numbers and aggressiveness. “By some counts,” a recent article in The Economist declares, “there are at least 500 million declared non-believers in the world — enough to make atheism the fourth-biggest religion.” And atheism spokesmen are aggressive, as recent publications show. . . .”

And two paragraphs later:

“For example, a prominent gay-rights spokesman gave this explanation for his objection to our Church’s position on California’s Proposition 8: “I’m not intending it to harm the religion. I think they do wonderful things. Nicest people . . . My single goal is to get them out of the same-sex business and back to helping hurricane victims.”"

“That was the year my parents gave my sister and me a Time-Life book for Christmas called ‘The Origins of Life’. There were dramatic pictures of lightning flashing over moody ammonia seas, doing the Darwinian equivalent of thundering, “Let there be life!” The book was filled with dinosaurs and proto-humans. It was my parents’ attempt to proselyte for their agnosticism. If they worried about their oldest daughters’odd propensity to think about God, I’m sure they thought that time and a college education would cure the malady.

I loved my dad with all my heart, but it was not my fate to absorb modern agnosticism from two parents who had rejected the religion of their youth.”

So why is it that people assume that Mormonism and evolution are not compatible? Isn’t evolution a more elegant creation than God waving a wand and creating the world in 1 day or 7,000 years? We need to get past the idea that Christianity and evolution are not compatible.