The winner, Francisco J. Ayala, 76, and a former Dominican priest, is a native of Spain and a naturalized U.S. citizen. He now teaches biological science at the University of California in Irvine. Ayala is known as an opponent of religious intrusion into science, and argues for the need to protect the teaching of evolutionary theory in U.S. public schools.
Science, religion: two windows on world, says Templeton winner
NEW YORK (ENI) A geneticist and molecular biologist, who has argued that science and religion should be kept separate, has won the Templeton Prize – an award associated with honoring those who advocate dialogue between the two disciplines.
