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462 BOOK REVIEWS In Chapter Three, ‘Is There Middle Ground Between Creation and Evolution?’, Fuller maintains that the perceived conflict between science and religion was manu- factured in the 19th century. Therein, he dismisses ‘theistic evolution’ as an ‘intellec- tual mirage’ and a feeble compromise between the two worldviews, a position with which I personally disagree. In Chapter Four, Fuller chides Michael Behe for taking Darwin’s ‘bait’, that is, for attempting to demonstrate that a complex organ existed which could not possibly have been formed by numerous successive modifications. Though I do not think that Behe has provided the requisite organ/system to invali- date Darwin’s theory, it is my opinion that Darwin sincerely believed that an instance of such would invalidate his theory, and thus it was not an example of rhetorical flourish, countering the claims of Fuller (p. 146). Fuller points out several aspects of modern evolutionary theory that place it, just as much as any positing of ID, on scientifically shaky ground. Indeed, he notes that evolutionary theory has not attained consensus on whether the overall process of evolution is Lamarckian or Darwinian. Moreover, it has not answered the question of whether design is something that genuinely
Literature and Theology – Oxford University Press
Published: Dec 17, 2009
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