Yes, religious liberals have
accepted evolution pretty much from the time Charles Darwin first proposed it, but in contrast to Darwin many of them believe that evolution is purposeful and that nature has a spiritual dimension.
Not exact matches
I did, however, know about
evolution, from my Biology classes, which I had
accepted as
pretty much fact.
It was
pretty groundbreaking stuff at the time, because rather than the prevailing, societally
accepted view, which believed that man was at the apex of all things, Darwin put forth this idea that each species followed its own independent course of
evolution, but with repeating structures and patterns, common solutions to biological problems appearing again and again.