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Theology and the Crisis in Darwinism[Note 1. I am indebted to many at the University of ...]
Author(s) -
Baker Anthony D.
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
modern theology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.144
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 1468-0025
pISSN - 0266-7177
DOI - 10.1111/1468-0025.00184
Subject(s) - darwinism , darwin (adl) , philosophy , natural theology , orthodoxy , christianity , epistemology , trace (psycholinguistics) , natural (archaeology) , natural selection , natural law , theology , selection (genetic algorithm) , history , linguistics , systems engineering , archaeology , artificial intelligence , computer science , engineering
In the past decade, the scientific challenges to “orthodox Darwinism” have multiplied rapidly, such that it is no longer unthinkable that natural selection’s days as a universal law are numbered. But if this is the case, theologians have their work cut out for them. If Darwin’s law proves to be historically and scientifically false, a new horizon appears for the discourse between theology and natural science. What will orthodox Christianity make of the crisis in Darwinism? This article, which follows the methodological imperative of “Radical Orthodoxy”, employs Aquinas and contemporary “post‐Darwinian” science to trace a space for a theological discourse beyond both natural selection and natural theology.