The Controversy Between Science And Religion

Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion concentrates on the Scopes trial, otherwise called the "Monkey Trial," which happened in Dayton, Tennessee in the mid year of 1925. The trial occurred in excess of a Tennessee law that banned the educating of human development out in the open schools. The American Civil Liberties Union needed to test the law, and a junior instructor named John Scopes, consented to help them. The alleged "trial of the century" united the well known government official and speaker, William Jennings Bryan, who headed the opposition to development campaign; and Clarence Darrow, who was viewed as the best criminal protection legal advisor of the time. The two men, plus their individual direction, clashed in the trail with the indictment in the end ready to maintain the law.

I have chosen the article, Does Science Threaten Religion? (p. 497) as my focus for this tutorial. I strongly believe the article uses the structural-functionalism approach as well as scientific sociology.

In chapter four the author explains the different school of thoughts, such as modern process theology, the problem of process thought, why this process fails, and the true story of open theism. In simple words, this is the spirit of this age of worldly knowledge and worldly wisdom is dominating society, school systems, and many evangelical churches. As a result, advance thinking and naturalistic view are convinced of their superiority of both knowledge and wisdom denying the existence of God as the Creator of this world. In chapter five Bush explains what naturalistic evolution is – “a philosophical mode by which the world may be interpreted in terms of change rather than stability.”

“The Origins of Species” by Charles Darwin proves to be one of the most influential and impactful books of all time. This book changed the way people viewed man, evolution, and religion because it is about Darwinism, Charles Darwin’s theory of biological evolution. To get more into detail, Darwinism explains that

Over one hundred fifty years after Darwin’s theory has been published, the evolution theory is still highly controversial. The idea didn’t go well with the public, Darwin was so embarrassed by the ridicule he received that the swimming-bear passage was removed from later editions of the book (Than). Darwin’s views brought him into fierce conflicts with others who continue to maintain that the account of divine creation contacted within the Bible was correct. According to Than, Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection is one of

This is an awesome book. It describes the outlook of biology not only through the eyes of faith, but from a Christian theistic point of view. In Biology through the Eyes of Faith, it explains the difference between a scientist’s perception of nature oppose to a Christian’s perception. Scientists say the world evolved which conflicts with the theistic view, which says the world came about through the creator God.

In the first chapter, Coyne discusses the basic concept outline of evolution, and brings clarity to the common misconceptions thought and said about how the science works, and the large misuse of the word theory. The first chapter of this book also defines very carefully each of the main hypothesis of evolutionary theory. Which stands in dissimilarity to many other treatments of evolution, which all have a propensity to confuse some readers by integrating different meanings of the word. Coyne also divides Darwinism into six components. They are: evolution which means change over time, gradualism which is a policy of slower change rather than sudden change or a revolution, speciation which is the evolutionary process where a new biological species

In 1859, Charles Darwin declared his theory of evolution - humans had descended from apes. This ideology was unpopular throughout the minds of freedom-and-Jesus-loving Americans. Although 1920’s technology was on its way to new findings, the traditionally southern public eye didn’t seem to be fascinated with the thought of people descending from humongous and hairy beings. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) supported Darwin’s theory, though. The Union was formed to protect the rights proclaimed by the Constitution and Bill of Rights. With that mission in mind, the ACLU paid for John Scopes’ defense team and promoted that he challenge the law (Leinwand 206). John Scopes was a science teacher in Dayton, Tennessee, specializing in biology. He used a state-approved textbook to teach his students, but because the book included Darwin’s theory of evolution, Scopes was not legally able to teach that portion of the text. He was then arrested for violating the Butler Act, which was just recently passed, and defended the ACLU (Green 164).

Throughout many years, religion has been a support for many people; reading the bible and attending to church every Sunday, is essential if someone wants to follow God’s guidance. Even though there are many religions in America, Christianity is the most common one and for most Christian believing in the Theory of Evolution is questioning God’s Guidance which is unacceptable and disrespectful. However, analyzing Kevin Hovind’s overly emotional argument about the Reasons Why Evolution is stupid is notable the lack of logical thinking, unreliable information and offensive language which left the audience questioning about the credibility of his knowledge.

Subsequent to giving numerous reasons why Evolutionism is contradictory to God and His outline, the book spends a section on each of the days of creation. In every part, the creator demonstrates why something besides an exacting six-day creation is outlandish. In this manner, he gives important cases of the miracles and wonders of creation. A large part of the book is centered around disproving

Why Evolution is True Book Review A majority of the population falls prey to the idea of creationism and its relative, intelligent design, however these concept's when mentioned lack substantial evidence. Darwin’s theory of evolution by which life on earth evolved by natural selection, is vast and contains a variety of splendid scientific validation. Jerry Coyne the author of “Why Evolution is True” explains that despite Darwin’s lack of knowledge on DNA and genetics his original theory as stated in “The Origin”, are the fundamental blocks for the modern theory of evolution. The topic of evolution when discussed evokes much emotion, this is because Holy literature not only has been the law of the land for centuries but also serves as a road

Although Darwin’s (1809-1882) work in evolutionary observation might appear radically different from those focused on other areas, the theories he developed from these observation lead to such groundbreaking publishing’s as The Origin of Species. These intern caused an upset within the then accepted norms of philosophy and religion, had a profound impact on the academia, and further

recent debate, between Bill Nye “The Science Guy” and Ken Ham, has sparked even more

The article, “A Matter of Scale,” urges the audience to observe the small and extraordinary components of the biosphere and acknowledge its genetic variations as explained by Darwin’s theory of evolution. However, Kelly’s essay, “Evolution: An Article of Faith,” considers Darwin’s theory as a “false religion” suppressing God’s ability to create the “work of intelligence.” (Evolution) The heated debate over the credibility of Darwin’s theory of evolution has led to the division of scientific and religious groups. Devoted, religious people discover two major flaws with Darwin’s theory of evolution regarding the inaccuracies of the fossil record and the contradicting phrase “survival of the fittest” that has passed on harmful mutations to next

Within philosophy, there has long been a question about the relationship between science and religion. These two systems of human experience have undoubtedly had a lot of influence in the course of mankind’s development. The philosopher Ian Barbour created a taxonomy regarding science and religion that has become widely influential. His taxonomy postulates that there are four ways in which science and religion are thought to interact. The four categories are: conflict, independence, dialogue, and integration. By using articles from a select few philosophers, theologians, and scientists, it is clear to see the ways in which these two systems of human experience are categorized in the four categories presented by Ian barbour. However, it will be apparent that the category of conflict may be seen as the most dominant in regard to the interaction between science and religion.