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标题：Christianity and Darwinism: The Journey Is More Important than The Destination
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作者：Michael Ruse
期刊名称：Religions
电子版ISSN：2077-1444
出版年度：2021
卷号：12
期号：2
页码：124
DOI：10.3390/rel12020124
语种：English
出版社：MDPI Publishing
摘要：Does God exist? If he does, what is the evidence for this? Can one arrive at God through reason (natural theology), or is it faith or nothing (revealed theology)? I write of my lifetime of wrestling with this question. Raised a Quaker, I lost my faith at the age of 20. As an academic, I became an expert on Charles Darwin and his theory of evolution through natural selection. How can I make sense of—and how can I reconcile—these two hugely important things in my life? At the age of 80, I find myself a long-standing agnostic. This is not, as Francis Collins claims, a “cop out.” Showing my debt to my Quaker heritage, I am theologically apophatic. I can say only what I do not know. I find this quite-out-of-character modesty hugely exciting. It gives my life great meaning.
关键词：Darwinism;creation science;mechanism;organicism;root metaphor