BBC Did Darwin Kill God? 2009
Conor Cunningham tries to overturn the view that Darwin's theory has weakened religion.
There are some who believe that Darwin's theory of evolution has
weakened religion, fuelled in part by Richard Dawkins' publishing
phenomenon The God Delusion. Conor Cunningham argues that nothing could
be further from the truth.
Cunningham is a firm believer in the
theory of evolution, but he is also a Christian. He believes that the
clash between Darwin and God has been hijacked by extremists -
fundamentalist believers who reject evolution on one side, and
fundamentalist atheists on the other. Cunningham attempts to overturn
what he believes are widely held but mistaken assumptions in the debate
between religion and evolution.
He travels to the Middle East
where he shows that from the very outset, Christianity warned against
literal readings of the biblical story of creation. In Britain, he
reveals that, at the time, Darwin's theory of evolution was welcomed by
the Anglican and Catholic Churches. Instead, he argues that the conflict
between Darwin and God was manufactured by American creationists in the
20th century for reasons that had very little to do with science and
religion and a great deal to do with politics and morality.
Finally,
he comes face to face with some of the most eminent evolutionary
biologists, geneticists and philosophers of our time to examine whether
the very latest advances in evolutionary theory do in fact kill God.
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