Talk:Richard G. Colling

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[edit] "The stance that science and religion are diametrically opposite is not suppressed by all Nazarene colleges and universities..."

Try to parse this 73-word sentence:

"The stance that science and religion are diametrically opposite is not suppressed by all Nazarene colleges and universities: Darrel R. Falk of Point Loma Nazarene wrote a book similar in intent to that of Colling, while Karl Giberson of Eastern Nazarene, the first Nazarene scholar to publish with Oxford University Press, has written three books on the tensions between science and religion, and is under contract for a fourth book titled Saving Darwin."

If you read it carefully, you'll realize that it says that Colling, Falk, and Giberson hold the view that science and religion are diametrically opposite. That is obviously untrue. It also indicates that Olivet Nazarene "suppresses" that view, which might or might not be true, but is unsupported, carries extremely negative connotations, and is irrelevant to an article about Colling.

I think the intent was probably to say that not all Nazarene colleges and universities oppose efforts like Colling's to reconcile evolutionary biology with Biblical creation. I'm going to try to fix it. NCdave (talk) 02:59, 9 April 2008 (UTC)