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Article: Evolution and Christian Faith: Reflections of an Evolutionary Biologist.(Brief article)(Book review)
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- The Christian Century
- Article date:
- July 11, 2006
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Evolution and Christian Faith: Reflections of an Evolutionary Biologist. By Joan Roughgarden. Island Press, 168 pp., $14.95.
Roughgarden, who teaches biological sciences and geophysics at Stanford University, attempts to sort fact from fiction in the debate over evolution. Although she criticizes the social Darwinism of Richard Dawkins, she thinks that most of the time evolutionary biologists have it right, and that failing to teach evolution is like failing to teach that the earth is round. An ...