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Welcome back for part three of our special three-part Darwin Day edition of Scientific American Science Talk. I'm Steve Murski. We'll continue with another presentation

from the Darwin event last week, sponsored by the New York Society for Ethical Culture.

The Reverend Thomas Good You is executive director of the Long Island Council of Churches,

and he's the author of the book Curious Bones, Mary Anning, and the Birth of Paleontology.

I'm going to be talking mostly about the religious influences on Darwin.

We've heard a little about Darwin's influence on religion. And I want to take

us back to the precursors of Darwin's theory and how religion was a part of the influence on them.

I think I got involved in all of this because of being puzzled by some things. More than 12,000 clergy,

in fact, have signed a joint declaration that says the timeless truths of the

Bible and discoveries of modern science may comfortably coexist and yet for many Americans about half

of the population according to the Gallup polls they still are opposed to the theory of evolution and oppose it being taught in public schools.

That's always been a mystery to me since it's, for my whole life, practically been clear to me.

It was, without doubt, one of the most important scientific theories ever presented,

something which it makes it, it's almost impossible to understand the biological sciences,

or as we've just heard, half of the other sciences these days, without understanding the theory of

evolution.

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