By MARTIN BECKFORD - TELEGRAPH.CO.UK
Added: Sat, 13 Feb 2010 00:00:00 UTC

Thanks to Eric for the link.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/7224279/Atheists-are-wrong-to-claim-science-and-religion-are-incompatible-Church-of-England-says.html

General Synod heard that public figures such as Professor Richard Dawkins, author of The God Delusion, use a “crude caricature” of faith to depict worshippers as “blind” and “irrational”.

Clergy and lay members of the Church said it was perfectly possible to believe in God and Darwin's theory of evolution, and said that religion can explain areas of existence that science cannot.

But they warned against treating the Bible as a scientific textbook, and claimed the “naivety” of some creationists can damage the standing of Christians who work in science and provide ammunition to their enemies.

So-called “young Earth” creationists in the US believe the story of Genesis is literally true and that God made the world in six days.

Peter Capon, a lay member of Synod from Manchester diocese who tabled the Private Member’s Motion on the compatibility of science and religious belief, said that Christians believe the world exists because of the will of God whereas atheists consider this to be a “complete delusion”.

He went on: “We wish to refute the idea promoted by atheist scientists that science is on the side of the atheist in answering these sorts of questions.

"We wish to refute the perception that you have to choose between science and faith.
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