Creation and Evolution

Despite the bad reputation of the legal profession, law remains king in America. A highly diverse society relies on the laws (and especially the Constitution) to maintain a working sense of the dignity and inviability of each individual. And a persistent element in contemporary debates is the fear t...

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Published in:Religious studies 1996-09, Vol.32 (3), p.325-337
Main Author: Devine, Philip E.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Biological evolution
Biology
Christianity
Darwinism
Evolution
Evolutionary theories
Evolutionism
History and sciences of religions
Humans
Ideology
Philosophy of religion
Religion
Religious naturalism
Religious studies
Scientific belief
Studies in religion
Theology
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Summary:Despite the bad reputation of the legal profession, law remains king in America. A highly diverse society relies on the laws (and especially the Constitution) to maintain a working sense of the dignity and inviability of each individual. And a persistent element in contemporary debates is the fear that naturalistic theories of the human person will erode our belief that we have a dignity greater than that of other natural objects. Thus the endurance of the creation vs. evolution debate is due less to the arguments of creationists, or to the continued influence of the book of Genesis, than to the reading of the evidence provided by Phillip E. Johnson of the University of California, Berkeley, Law School.
ISSN:0034-4125
1469-901X
DOI:10.1017/S0034412500024380