Salon has a fascinating interview with Barbara J. King, author of the new book Evolving God.

Q: So where does this whole evolutionary history leave us in today’s scientific age? What are the implications for how we can talk about religion?

A: I’m part of the camp of people who thinks it’s perfectly possible to see religion and science as compatible areas of thought and inquiry. In my book, I lay out three choices. You can say you’ve got to choose one. You can believe in science or you can have faith in God—the Richard Dawkins school of thought. Or you can say there are “non-overlapping magisteria”—the famous Stephen Jay Gould answer that religion will help us with meaning, and science will tell us about other things. I’m actually in a third place. If you can avoid being a biblical literalist, and if you can avoid being an arrogant scientist who tells everyone else what to think, you can think on multiple levels at once. There’s a lot of beauty in seeing that religion and science are really about the same things. They can be perfectly compatible.