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How Evolution Challenges Belief

By The Daily Dish
Sep 14 2009, 3:44 AM ET

William Brafford rounds up all the links in the ongoing discussion sparked by Jim Manzi's defense of Bob Wright against Jerry Coyne. Noah Millman, last week:

So the real question is whether Darwin’s theory radically undermined the persuasiveness of the idea that we are the pinnacle of creation – an idea that comes up again and again in the Abrahamic religions. And I think you’d have to argue that it does, for three reasons: first, because the idea of a natural heirarchy no longer is persuasive; second, because the mechanism of natural selection is repugnant to our usual conception of the Abrahamic God; and third, because if evolution is the mechanism of creation, then creation has not come to an end.

Manzi responds here.



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