Dear Professor,
I finished my Ph.D. August 14th, 2003. I have gotten many requests from religious groups to give a lecture
on my dissertation. It concerns the intersection of evolutionary biology and theology and the various forms
of compatibility.* I have found that evolutionary biologists debase religion to a significant degree in order
to make it compatible with science. They think they are doing the religious people a service by
subscribing to a form of compatibilism-that is, by maintaining that religion and evolutionary biology are
compatible. In most evolutionary biologists' view, there is no conflict between evolution and reli gion on
one important condition: that religion is essentially atheistic! I know it sounds crazy, but that is the result
of my dissertation.