One of the world’s most prominent Christian Darwinians spoke at two Texas universities this week, making a case for both evolution and theology.
Dr. Simon Conway Morris, a British paleontologist and professor of evolutionary paleobiology at Cambridge University, addressed faculty and students at Texas A&M and Baylor University on Monday and Tuesday, respectively, while visiting the state to receive the world-renowned Trotter Prize.
"There is no reason an evolutionary biologist could not subscribe to something transcendent," explained Morris to the Baylor Lariat, Baylor University’s student newspaper. "It would be a mistake to assume that all scientists are materialists, and they are not."...