Christianity
Can a Darwinian Be a Christian?
By , University of Otago (November 2007)
Sections: Christianity
Subjects: Christianity, History, Historiography, Study of History, Religion.
Periods: 1000 - 1999, 1800-1899, 1900-1999.
Key Topics: doctrine, evil, fundamentalism, historians, atheism, evangelicals, creation.
Abstract
A number of recent historians claim to have defeated what they call the ‘conflict thesis’, the idea that there exists some inevitable conflict between Darwinism and Christianity. This is often thought to be part of a broader ‘warfare thesis’, which posits an inevitable conflict between science and religion. But, all they have defeated is one, relatively uninteresting form of this thesis. There remain other forms of the conflict theses that remain entirely plausible, even in light of the historical record.
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-8171.2007.00050.x
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