UC Irvine's Francisco Ayala wins Templeton Prize
Friday, March 26, 2010 - 10:56
in Paleontology & Archaeology
The biologist and ordained priest espouses the idea that the theory of evolution is consistent with Christianity. The prize honors achievements in affirming spirituality. As a young doctoral student in the 1960s, Francisco J. Ayala was surprised to learn that Darwin's theory of evolution appeared to be less widely accepted in the United States than in his native Spain, then a profoundly conservative...