Monkey Trials and Gorilla Sermons

Download or read book Monkey Trials and Gorilla Sermons written by Peter J. Bowler and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bowler doesn't minimize the hostility of many of the faithful toward evolution, but he reveals the less well-known existence of a long tradition within the churches that sought to reconcile Christian beliefs with evolution by finding reflections of the divine in scientific explanations for the origin of life. By tracing the historical forerunners of these rival Christian responses, Bowler provides a valuable alternative to accounts that stress only the escalating confrontation.