Darwin's pious idea
Subtitle: why the ultra-darwinists and creationists both get it wrong
By: Conor Cunningham
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Pub.
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Grand Rapids, Mich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 543
ISBN-13: 9780802848383
Description: According to British scholar Conor Cunningham, the debate today between religion and evolution has been hijacked by extremists: on one side stand fundamentalist believers who reject evolution outright; on the opposing side are fundamentalist atheists who claim that Darwin's theory rules out the possibility of God.

Both sides are dead wrong argues Cunningham, who is at once a Christian and a firm believer in the theory of evolution. In Darwin's Pious Idea Cunningham puts forth a trenchant, compelling case for both creation and evolution, drawing skillfully on an array of philosophical, theological, historical, and scientific sources to buttress his arguments. --Book Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introducing Darwinism : the received view : disenchantment - The units of resurrection; title: Unnatural selection; title: Evolution: making progress?; title: Matter over mind: "we have never been modern"; title: Naturalizing naturalism: materialism's ghosts; title: Another life: "we have never been medieval".