![]() Just look at the strong anti-evolution sentiment in certain religions in this country today. ![]() Of course, the theology doesn't always work itself out. 'Fault Line For Continuing Controversies' That will work itself out in some sort of way." "You start seeing people say, 'Well, let's think about this as a scientific question,' " says Jim Secord, the director of the Darwin Correspondence Project at Cambridge University. As scientists started debating Darwin's ideas about evolution, they were keen to hold the debate in a secular context. 24, 1859, when the book was published, the relationship between religion and science was changing. Kingsley wrote back to Darwin: "It's just as noble a conception of God to think that he created animals and plants that then evolved, that were capable of self-development, as it is to think that God has to constantly create new forms and fill in the gaps that he's left in his own creation." Clearly pleased with this comment, Darwin included it in future editions of On the Origins of Species. For example, Endersby says Darwin sent a copy of his book to one of the leading members of the Church of England, the Rev. ![]() ![]() Popular history holds that the church's condemnation of Darwin was immediate and universal. "It was the fact that there was so much detail, so much evidence."Īnd it wasn't just scientists who liked the new theory. "What really impressed people with Darwin's work was not so much the idea itself, but the book," says Endersby. ![]()
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