I bet it's fairly common to find this sort of thing. I haven't polled my family or anything but I think there is a general range between the more deists mentality & those who practice religion more for cultural identity. Both of my parents attend church regularly, but my father has a masters in chemistry & math, while my mother studied biology before medical school. I suppose my mother is more the deist, & my father more the cultural practitioner. But neither of them believe that the bible is literal, & both completely accept evolution. If you take literal bible belief out of the equation, then I thinks its not very hard to accommodate both evolution & religious views in ones mind without any cognitive dissonance. Besides even fundamentalists pick & choose how to interpret the bible, even while believing it is literal
I agree. My mother was a devote, moderate Christian, that is a believer in Christ but not in the literal Bible. My father, I would call a Christian by rote. He was not particularly religious but sort of went along for the ride. This had a profound effect on my 3 siblings and me. One sister is a devote moderate christian & the other a deist, my brother is Agnostic & I am an Atheist. All 4 of us are science oriented and accept evolution and take the Bible as alleghorical to mythological
There is no better love between 2 people than mutual respect for each other WT Young, 2002
Who gave anyone the authority to call me an authority on anything. WT Young, 1969
Since Evolution is only ~90% correct it should be thrown out and replaced by Creation which has even a lower % of correctness. W T Young, 2008
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