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DARWIN AND THE OTHER CHRISTIAN TRADITION
Author(s) -
McMullin Ernan
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
zygon®
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.222
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 1467-9744
pISSN - 0591-2385
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9744.2010.01183.x
Subject(s) - interpretation (philosophy) , philosophy , george (robot) , literal (mathematical logic) , darwinism , epistemology , literal and figurative language , christian tradition , selection (genetic algorithm) , literature , religious studies , history , art history , art , linguistics , artificial intelligence , computer science
. Augustine, and following him some major theologians of the early Christian church, noted the apparent discrepancies between the first two chapters of Genesis and suggested an interpretation for these chapters significantly different from the literal. After examining a selection of the relevant texts, we shall follow the later fortunes of this interpretation in brief outline, figuring in particular an unlikely trio: Suarez, St. George Mivart, and Thomas Henry Huxley. Moral: Darwinian theory might plausibly be construed as implementing, unawares, a suggestion from that other Christian tradition.