An open letter on religion and science

IN THE NEWS
It's belaboring the obvious to state that we live in a decade when religion has enormous power to ignite or mute conflict. We're also going through a time when major segments of both Christianity and Islam are having a hard time co-existing with science. It's therefore heartening to read something like this petition, signed by 10,000 men and women of the cloth, proclaiming their belief that religion and science can comfortably co-exist.