Although the public square resounds with the creationism/evolution debate, Philip Clayton argues that the combatants still are not finally opponents. At Religion Dispatches he writes:
What emerges from the ashes, then, after the New Atheists and the intelligent design theorists have employed their weapons of mass destruction? The deeper questions still call for attention. We still ask what it means to be human, who we are, and how we should act in the world. What stories will we tell about ourselves and the universe? Which of those stories are true and which are false? How should we tell them differently in light of the best empirical data and theories?
This new discussion does not entail a different kind of science, though it does call for science without ideology. It does, however, call for a broader view of religion. John Haught puts it brilliantly in his forthcoming book, Making Sense of Evolution: Darwin, God, and the Drama of Life: “If we measure the movement of life in terms of a narrow human preoccupation with design, evolution seems blind and aimless.” ...
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ReplyDeleteThere is no debate. Every educated person knows evolution is a basic scientific fact. Creationism, also known as The-Magic-Man-Did-It, is childish nonsense.