Korting Before Darwin Reconciling God and Nature – Keith Stewart Thomson

Scientists and theologians had long been debating the religious implications of evolutionary theory when Darwin announced his theory of natural selection. For 200 years before the publication of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species , findings in the sciences of the earth and of nature threatened religious belief based on the literal truth of the Bible. This book traces out the multiple conflicts and accommodations within religion and the new sciences through the writings of such heroes of the English En…