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monkey trials and gorilla sermons evolution and christianity from darwin to intelligent design
p from the beginning darwins dangerous idea has been a snake in the garden denounced from pulpits then and now as incompatible with the central tenets of christian faith . recovered here is the less well known but equally long history of thoughtful engagement and compromise on the part of liberal theologians . peter j. bowler doesnt minimize the hostility of many of the faithful toward evolution but he reveals the existence of a long tradition within the churches that sought to reconcile christian beliefs with evolution by finding reflections of the divine in scientific explanations for the origin of life . by tracing the historical forerunners of these rival christian responses bowler provides a valuable alternative to accounts that stress only the escalating confrontation . p our polarized society bowler says has all too often projected its rivalries onto the past concealing the efforts by both scientists and theologians to find common ground . our perception of past confrontations has been shaped by an oversimplified model of a war between science and religion . by uncovering the complexity of the debates sparked by darwins theory we might discover ways to depolarize our own debates about where we came from and why we are here .