CHRTC350 Study Guide - Final Guide: Asa Gray, Deism, Blind Chance
15 Oct 2018
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Write a letter to richard dawkins regarding his well-known statement that darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist. make use of charles darwin"s actual scientific & religious views. Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled theist. In 1859: origin of species ( theory of evolution by natural selection) At cambridge university darwin was a biblical literalist. Accepted william paley"s conflated categories of nature : id + perfect adaptation + Darwin lacked hermeneutical categories and due to him assuming historical concordism of. Gen1-11 he rejects the bible and miracles ( personal interventionism) but he does not reject god. Darwin"s notebooks were never intended to be published therefore they are completely honest. He rejects a god-of-the-gaps but believes in a god who creates through evolution, therefore he believed in teleological evolution. Reflects astronomy-biology analogy: if there is no need for a god-of-the-gaps in astronomy, then there is no need for a god of the gaps in biology.
