Reading the fossils of faith: Thomas Henry Huxley and the evolutionary subtext of the synoptic problem.

Church History | September 1, 2005| | Copyright

In a book loaded with metaphors of assault and retaliation, Andrew Dickson White's A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom saved one of the best for Darwin. "Darwin's Origin of Species," we are told, came "into the theological world like a plough into an ant-hill. Everywhere those thus rudely awakened from their old comfort and repose had swarmed forth angry and confused." (1) For White, the sometimes frenzied post-Darwinian controversies over providential design and divine creation were simply the latest episodes in an all-out struggle between ...

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