There is a sense – and this is what I want to show in this article – that the two sides are talking past each other. The issue is one specific scientist – Charles Darwin: a hero to one side because of his achievements, condemned by the others because of the moral tendency of his ideas. Each side is busy ignoring the real, living point of the other. Very few Christians appear willing to even admit the validity of Darwin’s scientific work; and even as open-minded and civilized a scientist as the... read more
