Roving Defender of Evolution, and of Room for God

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Chas Metivier

SCIENCE AND THEOLOGYFrancisco J. Ayala says that belief in evolution does not necessarily rule out belief in God,

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An evolutionary biologist and geneticist at the University of California, Irvine, he speaks often at universities, in churches, for social groups and elsewhere, usually in defense of the theory of evolution and against the arguments of creationism and its ideological cousin, intelligent design.

Usually he preaches to the converted. But not always.