Title: Schepping en wording
Description: This book gives an argued case on a non-fundamentalist approach amongst some christians towards the relationship between philosophical assumptions, experienced religion and the question of evolutionism. It is, for 1968 and also in a calvinist environment, surprisingly open to the notion of the becoming of species. Hence the title of "creation and becoming" is meaningfully chosen as is, since usually christian intellectuals would phrase the problem as "creation and evolutionism". Christians usually avoid the problem of dealing with the factual realities of environmental and genetic contributions to variety of species. It also makes interesting statements on the limitations for both the science of biology and the theory of evolution. Not here. But it looks at religious assumptions to the sciences and chapter 2 deals with the problem how and why it was difficult for all learned men, not only the theologians to accept the Gallileian observations and explanations at the time. This is clearly in preparation for the discussion of the Darwinian revolution. Although no reference is made towards the Kuhn publication of a few years earlier (Structure of Scientific Revolutions-1962) it is most certainly related to it, even if on different assumptions.
Subjects: Creation, Philosophy, Religion and science
People: Lever, Dooyeweerd, De Witt
Time periods: 1946-