
Did Darwin Kill God
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I'm a huge admirer of Charles Darwin.
His theory of evolution is one of
the greatest contributions to science
perception of life on earth forever.
I believe religious alternatives
like creationism
and intelligent design are nonsense.
You may think that that would make
me an atheist, but I am a Christian.
I believe in God.
As a philosopher and theologian, I write
and lecture on Darwinism and Religion,
and I am disturbed how the debate
has been hijacked by extremists.
On one side stands Richard Dawkins,
crusader against the belief in God.
Not only is it unscientific,
it doesn't do justice
to the grandeur of the universe.
Dawkins is the flag bearer of a strand
of Darwinism called ultra-Darwinism,
which believes the theory
There's no role
to play by a creative God,
an intelligent God,
a benign God of any sort.
And facing them
are the fundamentalist believers
who tell us evolution is wrong.
the age of the earth. The universe
is only about 6000 years.
I believe that Christ was God incarnate
and that he was resurrected from the dead.
But I also believe creationists
are wrong to read Genesis literally.
The war has gone on long enough,
so I'm on a journey
to the heart of this conflict
to show that it is possible to believe
in both Darwin's theory and God.
I'll be discovering what traditional Christianity
really thought about the creation of life,
unravelling the true impact of
Darwin's theory in Victorian Britain,
and seeing whether modern Darwinism
does indeed destroy my Christian faith.
In November 1859, one upstanding
Victorian would publish a theory
that would challenge everything
we understood about the world.
He was Charles Darwin.
Science was about to launch its most
deadly weapon in its war against religion.
The arrival of Darwin's theory
of evolution is seen by many
as the death of divine creation,
and the birth of modern atheism.
Darwin's theory has been called
a universal acid.
It has eaten away through every traditional
understanding of the world, including belief in God.
It contradicted the Biblical view
in just six days, 6000 years ago.
If this account was central to
Christianity, then it was in grave danger.
But to think this is to misunderstand
the very essence of my faith.
I've come to Israel,
the land of the Bible,
to uncover what the founders of Christianity
thought about the creation of life.
There is an assumption
that for thousands of years,
people thought that it was a factual account
of the actual creation of life on earth.
But to assume this is to make a huge
mistake about the meaning of the Bible.
And to see why,
we need to look closely
"Genesis, chapter one.
"In the beginning, God created
the heavens and the earth.
"God created the light and darkness
and the first day was formed. "
Genesis 1 continues to tell us
what God created on each day.
On the third day, the land produces vegetation
And on the sixth day, God makes all
the creatures, including humans -
who are made in his image.
But something confusing happens
when we get to chapter two.
We are told a different story.
We are told that Adam was made
before any plants appeared.
In chapter one,
man and woman are made together
after all the plants and animals.
In chapter two, they are made separately,
and Adam is made before any plant appears.
The two accounts
contradict each other.
I'm in Jerusalem
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