RT Article
T1 Christianity and Darwinism: The Journey Is More Important Than the Destination
JF Religions
VO 12
IS 2
A1 Ruse, Michael 1940-
LA English
PB MDPI
YR 2021
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1750246511
AB Does God exist? If he does, what is the evidence for this? Can one arrive at God through reason (natural theology), or is it faith or nothing (revealed theology)? I write of my lifetime of wrestling with this question. Raised a Quaker, I lost my faith at the age of 20. As an academic, I became an expert on Charles Darwin and his theory of evolution through natural selection. How can I make sense of—and how can I reconcile—these two hugely important things in my life? At the age of 80, I find myself a long-standing agnostic. This is not, as Francis Collins claims, a “cop out.” Showing my debt to my Quaker heritage, I am theologically apophatic. I can say only what I do not know. I find this quite-out-of-character modesty hugely exciting. It gives my life great meaning.
K1 Darwinism
K1 Creation Science
K1 Mechanism
K1 Organicism
K1 root metaphor
DO 10.3390/rel12020124