Pro-evolution project says faith and science are reconcilable

A biologist with a scientific interest in evolution-creation debates
attributed a poll saying that three-fourths of Protestant pastors reject
evolution—and close to half believe the earth is about 6,000 years
old—to a common but false idea that science and faith cannot be
reconciled. The survey of 1,000 pastors, released in January, also said
that 74 percent agreed that "Adam and Eve were literal people."

Michael
Zimmerman, academic vice president and provost at Evergreen State
College in Olympia, Washington, said he doubts that a representative
sample of pastors was surveyed by LifeWay Research, an arm of the
Southern Baptist Convention—citing, for example, the 73 percent who
disagreed with the statement "I believe God used evolution to create
people."

Either way, Zimmerman said, "it is a shame that the
respondents find that their religion demands that they turn away from
the facts of the natural world."