Here’s a post by Denyse on Uncommon Descent.
Excerpt:
In Christian Darwinism: Why Theistic Evolution Fails As Science and Theology (Broadman and Holman, November 2011), mathematician Dembski and journalist O’Leary address a powerful new trend to accommodate Christianity with atheist materialism, via acceptance of Darwinian (“survival of the fittest”) evolution.
[…]In the authors’ view, no accommodation is possible. More to the point, accommodation is not even necessary. There are good reasons for doubting Darwin and good reasons for adopting other models for evolution – or for deciding that there is not enough evidence to make a decision.
Dembski and O’Leary insist that this conflict has nothing to do with the age of the Earth. Darwinism is, as they will show, the increasingly implausible creation story of atheism, which diverges at just about every point from the Christian worldview on which modern science was founded.
Denyse’s blog on intelligent design is here.
My regular readers know that I consider theistic evolution to be equivalent to atheism. If a Christian thinks that we can’t detect God in the world using science apart from subjective opinions, then they might as well be an atheist. Christianity is a knowledge tradition, not a blind-belief tradition.
“If a Christian thinks that we can’t detect God in the world using science apart from subjective opinions, then they might as well be an atheist.”
Except for that whole eternal-salvation-of-his/her-soul thing. ;) If I had a loved one pass on, I’d feel a lot better if they loved and served Jesus but had no clue about scientific evidence for God than if they were an avowed atheist.
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According to your quotation above the book does not deny evolution but “Darwinian” evolution. They are open to “other models of evolution”.
JW
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