Science And Religion A Very Short Introduction - 1198 Words

â€Å"Darwin and Evolution† and â€Å"Creationism and Intelligent Design,† Science and Religion: A Very Short Introduction (pp. 58-103) by Thomas Dixon The author, Thomas Dixon explains Evolution and creationism in separate chapters in his book, â€Å"Science and Religion: A Very Short Introduction.† The evolution chapter talks about the history of Charles Darwin’s evolution, its challenges of the root of all living creatures as started in the Bible and it effect it has brought in American society. In the chapter, Dixon explain that Darwin was enroll in Christ College (Church of England), Cambridge in England to study mathematics and theology in order to become a â€Å"Reverend,† after he had refuse to continue his medical training. Darwin could not†¦show more content†¦The discoveries of his Beagle voyage and the books he read compelled him to develop â€Å"the theory of evolution and natural selection (Origin of Species). These books were William Paley (Natural Theology, or Evidence of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity, Collected from the Appearances of Nature); Thomas Malthus (an essay on the principle of population); and Charles Lyell (principles of geological) books he read according to the author. The theory (Origin of Species) state, â€Å"all living things including human being are all equally the lineal descendants of the same aboriginal common ancestor.† This theory, created a debate between churches and the people who believe in evolution in 1860, as it describe human being to be evolve from apes but not created from God. Even though, Darwin’s friend Thomas Huxley was able to defend evolution against Bishop Samuel Wilberforce. However, the question about how the world came is not clear in evolution knowledge, which has led to the theory of Creationism and the theory of Intelligent Design according to the author. This began a new chapter. This charter explains that a movement of Anti- Darwinian Theory come with a theory called â€Å"Intelligent Design† to challenge evolution. These group believe that God design all living things but not evolution. They based their point on â€Å"the complex chain of chemical process in cell such as blood clotting in mammals, irreducible complexity of the flagellum