Title: The war that never was : evolution and Christian theology /
Authors: Kemp, Kenneth W.
Year: 2020
Subjects: Scopes, John Thomas Trials, litigation, etc.; Scopes, John Thomas; Evolution (Biology) Religious aspects Christianity; Evolution (Biology) Religious aspects Christianity History.; Creationism; Intelligent design (Teleology); Creationism History.; Creationism; Evolution (Biology) Religious aspects Christianity; Intelligent design (Teleology)
Abstract: "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." --Amazon.com.
Contents: Introduction -- The historical origins of the warfare thesis -- Christianity, geology, & cosmology before 1859 -- Christianity & evolution in the nineteenth century -- William Jennings Bryan, John T. Scopes, & the first curriculum war -- Creation science, intelligent-design theory, & the second curriculum war -- Conclusion.