Reality and the Metaphor

I have recently finished "The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins. I recommend that everyone who professes to believe in God read this book. I particularly liked the last part when he described the wonder of natural selection. I believe that every minister and priest should not only read this book, but take an important lesson from it. Evolution is not the enemy of the church. Once the believers grasp the concept of how powerful a metaphor can be, the marriage between God and the natural world can be not only resumed, but fortified by taking the fairy dust out of religion, and the lack of poetry and metaphor out of science. Each side has much to teach the other. Neither side has the entire truth. Together, both sides can become powerful in the right way. Science can ennoble religion and religion can ennoble science. The time to start this marriage is now, before science runs amok, and before religion takes us back to the dark ages. I will speak more on this subject in later postings.