Interesting as a teacher in the Pella public school I had very few people ever question my teaching of evolution but I'm sure some of them belonged to churches that might have been preaching against the idea. Pastor Pries asked me to preach a sermon on the acceptance of evolution at Peace Lutheran and it did not cause several members to drop out and form a different congregation. I think a lot of people just have no idea of what evolution really is nor that there are a variety of ways to interpret biblical verses.
Interesting as a teacher in the Pella public school I had very few people ever question my teaching of evolution but I'm sure some of them belonged to churches that might have been preaching against the idea. Pastor Pries asked me to preach a sermon on the acceptance of evolution at Peace Lutheran and it did not cause several members to drop out and form a different congregation. I think a lot of people just have no idea of what evolution really is nor that there are a variety of ways to interpret biblical verses.
People just hear the word and get mad, even though it is a central point of modern biology.