There’s room for science and religion, but there’s a time and a place for both.

Creationist Dave Nutting spoke Monday in the Holmes Student Center about archeological evidence he thinks points toward a great flood. The main question was whether evolution and creationism should be taught in schools. People acknowledge the rift, but that doesn’t mean professors need to teach both.

“Only if it’s not forced because if I force staunch evolutionists to teach the creationist Biblical record they’re going to make shambles of it,” Nutting said. “Just because there was a flood in the geology does not prove the Bible was right.”

There’s no need to combine science and creationism. Spirituality means different things to different people, and if people approach science like they do religion, rather than objectively, it would put in danger the advancement of science. Science and religion can coexist without mixing.

“That’s the kind of message I give students in my class,” said biological science professor Neil Blackstone. “We don’t believe in evolution because it’s true and right — we don’t believe in it at all. We don’t believe in scientific theories. It’s a scientific theory … religion is a separate domain from science. But both are important.

“So, I think if you’re respectful of people’s beliefs and show how evolution is not threatening it’s not going to endanger their personal beliefs. It’s useful theory. It’s useful like the germ theory of disease … . It helps us build a better society. And that’s it.”