You can download Theos’ report Rescuing Darwin on the current relationship between Christianity and Darwinism from their website. It contains more details of the survey, as well as giving a broader view of the debate.
Rescuing Darwin argues that Darwin and his theory have become caught in the crossfire of a philosophical and theological battle in which he himself had little personal interest. On the one side stands a handful of modern Darwinians who insist that evolution has killed God and ideas of design, purpose, morality and humanity. On the other side are their mainly, but not exclusively, religious opponents who, unwilling to adopt such a bleak vision, cite Genesis and Intelligent Design as evidence of evolution’s deficiency.
With the 200th anniversary of Darwin’s birth next week, and the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species in November, I hope to post a few thoughts in the next few days on how Christians should respond to all the attention being given to Darwin and the theory of evolution this year.
