Evolution of life

Yesterday evening, my wife and I went to listen to the 'Exploring the Evolution of Life' Symposium at the university. What a pleasure to meet and hear articulate, intelligent discussion! Dr. Douglas Futuyma from the Department of Ecology and Evolution, State University of New York gave a wonderful forty-minute presentation of Evolution as the "most important theory in Biology" and to a large extent a scientific theory about life and all its living things. Futuyma gave examples of experiments and studies - from geneticists to geologists and naturalists which support the incredibly intricate but correct predictions of Evolution. 

 Dr. Warren Allmon is with the Paleontological Research Institution and Cornell University gave a passinate discourse about the "spectrum of God", the scientific basis, conflicts, reconcilation for our understanding of its existence, scientific honesty and the politics of religion in America. Allmon does not rule out God's existence but added that there are several critical areas where the religion(s) cannot reconcile with our understanding of life and all consistent scientific, engineering successes which make our life work the way it is.