The War That Never Was: Evolution and Christian Theology
The War That Never Was: Evolution and Christian Theology by Kenneth W. Kemp
English | May 29, 2020 | ISBN: 1532694997, 1532694989 | True PDF | 236 pages | 5.6 MB
English | May 29, 2020 | ISBN: 1532694997, 1532694989 | True PDF | 236 pages | 5.6 MB
One of the prevailing myths of modern intellectual and cultural history is that there has been a long-running war between science and religion, particularly over evolution. This book argues that what is mistaken as a war between science and religion is actually a pair of wars between other belligerents–one between evolutionists and anti-evolutionists and another between atheists and Christians. In neither of those wars can one align science with one side and religion or theology with the other.
This book includes a review of the encounter of Christian theology with the pre-Darwinian rise of historical geology, an account of the origins of the warfare myth, and a careful discussion of the salient historical events on which the myth-makers rely–the Huxley-Wilberforce exchange, the Scopes Trial and the larger anti-evolutionist campaign in which it was embedded, and the more recent curriculum wars precipitated by the proponents of Creation Science and of Intelligent-Design Theory.