The enigmatic Mr. Darwin

Posted July 3rd @ 4:57 pm by Andy Print This Post

More fuel for the neverending science/faith/creation/evolution debate: Charles Darwin, supporter of missionaries. Not a terribly meaty article, but this bit stands out:

“I don’t think Darwin would recognize his defenders today and probably wouldn’t understand his attackers,” says cultural historian Mark Graham of Grove City (Pa.) College, author of the Journal of Religious History report.

(Hat tip: Thunderstruck.)

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Siarlys Jenkins
July 10, 2007 at 11:03

Darwin probably WOULD recognize his critics, because a bigoted Anglican bishop pronounced his work “contrary to the Word of God.” The bishop spoke in ignorance. The process which has been incompletely revealed in its material details by evolutionary biology is clearly laid out in the first five chapters of Genesis, particularly the first chapter. The fact that human science didn’t recognize it until Darwin, and his contemporary Wallace, is evidence that someone who saw it all happen must have explained it to Moses.

It is of course problematic that evolutionary biology is irresponsibly summarized as “life results from…” one or two specific causes. There are MANY causes for development of new life forms, many of them catastrophic, not slow changes over time at all. Likewise, while there is fossil evidence for many succeeding species of hominids, MOST of them are NOT “our ancestors.”