Monkey Trials & Gorilla Sermons: Evolution and Christianity from Darwin to Intelligent Design
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Monkey Trials & Gorilla Sermons: Evolution and Christianity from Darwin to Intelligent Design  -     By: Peter J. Bowler

Monkey Trials & Gorilla Sermons: Evolution and Christianity from Darwin to Intelligent Design

Harvard University Press / 2009 / Paperback

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"Alongside outbreaks of controversy such as the Huxley-Wilberforce debates, the Scopes trial, or contemporary battles over science education, Bowler portrays a broad movement, spearheaded by liberal Christians and religiously inclined evolutionists, to interpret evolution as God's plan,"---Publishers Weekly. 256 pages, softcover. Harvard University.

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Title: Monkey Trials & Gorilla Sermons: Evolution and Christianity from Darwin to Intelligent Design
By: Peter J. Bowler
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 272
Vendor: Harvard University Press
Publication Date: 2009
Dimensions: 8.25 X 5.50 (inches)
Weight: 10 ounces
ISBN: 0674032209
ISBN-13: 9780674032200
Stock No: WW032200

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From the beginning, Darwin's dangerous idea has been a snake in the garden, denounced from pulpits then and now as incompatible with the central tenets of Christian faith. Recovered here is the less well-known but equally long history of thoughtful engagement and compromise on the part of liberal theologians. Peter J. Bowler doesn't minimize the hostility of many of the faithful toward evolution, but he reveals the existence of a long tradition within the churches that sought to reconcile Christian beliefs with evolution by finding reflections of the divine in scientific explanations for the origin of life. By tracing the historical forerunners of these rival Christian responses, Bowler provides a valuable alternative to accounts that stress only the escalating confrontation.

Our polarized society, Bowler says, has all too often projected its rivalries onto the past, concealing the efforts by both scientists and theologians to find common ground. Our perception of past confrontations has been shaped by an oversimplified model of a "war" between science and religion. By uncovering the complexity of the debates sparked by Darwin's theory, we might discover ways to depolarize our own debates about where we came from and why we are here.

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