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The Los Angeles Times article states that, 'Ayala, 76, has been at the forefront of efforts to defend Darwin's theory from attacks by Christian fundamentalists, many of whom favor the notion of intelligent design, which is consistent with a literal reading of the biblical creation story and holds that the world is too complex to have evolved without oversight by a supreme being.'
Ayala is the author of "Darwin's Gift to Science and Religion.' According to the LA Times article, within the book Ayala states it, ''¦ is possible to believe that God created the world while also accepting that the planets, mountains, plants and animals came about, after the initial creation, by natural processes."
A webcast of the announcement of the 2010 Templeton Prize can be found at http://www.templetonprize.org/.
