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Before Darwin: Reconciling God and Nature,Used
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Scientists and theologians had long been debating the religious implications of evolutionary theory when Darwin announced his theory of natural selection.For 200 years before the publication of Darwins On the Origin of Species,findings in the sciences of the earth and of nature threatened religious belief based on the literal truth of the Bible. This book traces out the multiple conflicts and accommodations within religion and the new sciences through the writings of such heroes of the English Enlightenment as David Hume, Robert Hooke, John Ray, Erasmus Darwin (Charles grandfather), Thomas Burnet, and William Whiston. Keith Thomson brings us back to a time when many powerful clerics were also noted scientific scholars and leading scientists were often believers. He celebrates the force and elegance of their prose along with the inventiveness of their arguments, their certitude, and their not infrequent humility and caution. Placing Charles Darwins work in the context of earlier writers on evolutionary theory, Thomson finds surprising and direct connections between the antievolutionary writings of natural theologians like William Paley and the arguments that Darwin employed to turn antievolutionist ideas upsidedown. This is an illuminating chronicle of an important period in the history of ideas and one that casts interesting light on the antievolution/creationist controversies of our own time.
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