Nuggets from Cosmos, Creator, and Human Destiny

They asked Gould why “all this talk about scientific creationism’?” They wanted to know whether evolution was “in some kind of trouble” in America. One of the priests emphasized that he had “always been taught that no conflict exists between evolution and Catholic faith.” Gould explained that the only conflict came from an American “homegrown phenomenon—a splinter movement . . . of Protestant fundamentalists who believe that every word of the Bible must be literally true.”