The War That Never Was
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The War That Never Was

Evolution and Christian Theology

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The War That Never Was

Evolution and Christian Theology

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Introduction
  3. The Historical Origins of the Warfare Thesis
  4. Christianity, Geology & Cosmology before 1859
  5. Christianity & Evolution in the Nineteenth Century
  6. William Jennings Bryan, John T. Scopes, & the First Curriculum War
  7. Creation Science, Intelligent-Design Theory, & the Second Curriculum War
  8. Conclusion
  9. Bibliography