The ante has been raised so high by the polemical nature of the controversy that resolution in favor of one school will have catastrophic implications for the other. On the one hand, the scientific community by and large, including the National Academy of Sciences, has staked the prestige of science on a particular theory with considerable explanatory power but known problems, in part because it is consistent with a naturalistic philosophy. On the other hand, Creationists have for all intents and purposes staked the truth of their religion on the falsity of that same theory, because of the
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