Anglican Communion News Service - Digest News

Pastors and teachers need to understand science and faith so they can best serve their parishioners and students, the reverend Dr Graham Buxton says.

Tabor Adelaide is hosting a series of presentations titled God and Science: In the Pulpit and God and Science: In the Classroom.

Anglican minister Dr Buxton, director of the college's Graeme Clark Research Institute, said science and faith were not necessarily enemies.

"I think sometimes the Bible is being read too literally and I think there are some issues in terms of biblical interpretation and how the Bible is understood," he said.

Dr Buxton said that he believed God used a Big Bang and evolution to create the world.

"There is no reason why someone can't have a theistic view of evolution," Dr Buxton said.

"I don't have any problems with seeing a God who was involved and actually set in the conditions of the Big Bang everything that was necessary for the unfolding of the universe through the evolutionary process."

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