Volume 48, Number 16 · October 18, 2001
Saving Us from Darwin, Part II
By Frederick C. Crews
The Faith of Biology and the Biology of Faith: Order, Meaning, and Free Will in Modern Medical Science
by Robert Pollack
Columbia University Press, 125 pp., $19.95
God After Darwin: A Theology of Evolution
by John F. Haught
Westview, 221 pp., $18.00 (paper)
Can a Darwinian Be a Christian? The Relationship Between Science and Religion
by Michael Ruse
Cambridge University Press, 233 pp., $24.95
Finding Darwin's God: A Scientist's Search for Common Ground Between God and Evolution
by Kenneth R. Miller
Cliff Street Books/ HarperCollins,338 pp., $14.00 (paper)
Rocks of Ages: Science and Religion in the Fullness of Life
by Stephen Jay Gould
Library of Contemporary Thought/Ballantine, 241 pp., $18.95
In a recent essay in these pages I argued that 'intelligent design'—the theory that cells, organs, and organisms betray unmistakable signs of having been fashioned by a divine hand—bears only a parodic relationship to a research-based scientific movement.[1] In a world where empirical issues were settled on strictly empirical grounds, ID would be a doctrine without a future. But scientific considerations can take a back seat when existential angst, moral passions, and protectiveness toward sacred tradition come into play.
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