Next year sees a major Charles Darwin anniversary: 200 years since his birth, and 150 years since the publication of On the Origin of the Species.
Darwin’s religious views were (or became) those of a muddled agnostic. In a recent article in Times Online, Nick Spencer offers Ten Surprising Things Darwin Said About Religious Faith:-
1. “The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an Agnostic.”…
The relationship between science and Christian theology is much closer than many – including Richard Dawkins and the other New Atheists, would have us believe. Colin Russell, Emeritus Professor of the History of Science and Technology at the Open University, has a number of ways in which Christian theology has influenced the growth and development of science:-
1. The elimination of ‘myth’ from nature. An animate nature is not susceptible to scientific enquiry, not compatible with the biblical injunction to treat nature as a dependent creation of God, Psa 29, 89, 104, 137, who alone is to be worshipped, Deut 26:11; Isa 44:24; Jer 7:18.…
