Even though this is opinion, it drives me crazy.
Darwin’s science no threat to faith
Christian’s need to apologize to Darwin ” for the slander slathered on this good man’s name?”
Really?
Most Christians don’t have a problem with intra-species “natural selection”, which is the process discussed in this Opinion article. Believing that a moth with coloring more suited for its environment would have an advantage over other moths is obvious. Our problem is inter-species “natural selection”, where humans are postulated to have evolved from apes because humans and apes are similar, yet humans are “more evolved”. Christians who believe the Bible is the inerrant, revealed Word of God find conflict with the idea that humans are not the unique creation of God and simply the extension of other beings. We can’t reconcile Genesis 2:7 (then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature) with the theories put forth in Darwin’s The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex. We have also seen the effects of Social Darwinism, where “natural selection” becomes eugenics, as championed by Peter Singer, and we shudder to think of the damage caused by viewing only the fittest as worth of survival.
Was Darwin met with opposition? Yes. Was that opposition at times sinful? Most likely. Does that past sin obligate Christians to give all of Darwin’s theories a free pass, without examining them in light of their near- and long-term implications? No, for doing so would submit the Almighty Creator God to the theorizings of His creation, Charles Darwin.
The other part of this letter that drives me crazy is the presentation of the rule of Jesus being “love”. That is true, but only partly. Jesus is all about love, but He was also all about His Father, who was Holy and Righteous, worthy of praise and jealous for our worship. This smacks of Jesusianity, which is 21st Century liberalism wrapped up in faux-evangelicalism.
