tnr.com - 2/2/2009
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Saving Darwin: How to be a Christian and Believe in Evolution By Karl W. Giberson (HarperOne, 248 pp., $24.95) Only A Theory: Evolution and the Battle for America's Soul By Kenneth R. Miller (Viking, 244 pp., $25.95) I. Charles Darwin was born on February 12, 1809--the same day as Abraham ...
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The American Scene —
... on Jerry Coyne’s TNR article on science and religion. I know Jerry Coyne a bit: we have friends in common, and in fact had a pleasant dinner together some years ago at the wedding of those friends. And we have corresponded about some of these issues. Jerry is a gifted scientist and a fine writer, and I’ve learned a great deal over the years from reading his stuff (his stuff for laypeople, anyway). But I’ve also complained to him that he makes real conversation among the contending parties more difficult when he refuses to acknowledge significant differences ...
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Ross Douthat —
... have already commented on Jerry Coyne's brief for the utter incompability of science and religion, and I basically share their view of the difficulties with Coyne's argument. The core problem, it seems to me, is that Coyne wants to contrast scientific rigor with religious fuzziness and only religious fuzziness; he doesn't want to admit that many realms of human thought and argument are more like theology than chemistry, which is to say that they don't come with a "laboratory-tested" seal of approval. ...
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