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8 - Religion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 December 2024

Michael Ruse
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Florida State University
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The standard trope is that evolution and religion are at war. Bishop Wilberforce against science professor Thomas Henry Huxley. John Thomas Scopes was prosecuted for teaching that humans evolved from apes. Many, however, welcomed evolution, bringing it into their religious world picture. This was particularly the case for those drawn to organicism, Henri Bergson and Teilhard de Chardin in France, and Alfred North Whitehead, founder of process theology/philosophy in America. Evolution, Darwinism in particular, was now seen as a stimulating challenge rather than as a dire threat.

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Charles Darwin
No Rebel, Great Revolutionary
, pp. 143 - 161
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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  • Religion
  • Michael Ruse, Florida State University
  • Book: Charles Darwin
  • Online publication: 05 December 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009438971.009
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  • Religion
  • Michael Ruse, Florida State University
  • Book: Charles Darwin
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  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009438971.009
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  • Religion
  • Michael Ruse, Florida State University
  • Book: Charles Darwin
  • Online publication: 05 December 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009438971.009
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