Creationism and the Conflict Over Evolution

A concise and accessible analysis of the controversy between evolutionism and creationism rejecting simplistic science-versus-religion stereotypes.

How do our current notions of the workings of the universe fit with our deepest convictions about its meaning and value? From religion, we grasp the world as created, given, gift. From science, we apprehend it as evolving, in process, changing. How do we bring these apprehensions together? Or can we? Is our impulse to find the two complementary: creation and evolution? Or is it to find them contradictory: creation or evolution? From the Preface: 'The way in which we answer these questions carries personal and intellectual consequences. It will constitute the first piece in a worldview within which we order our religious beliefs and scientific judgments.'

Dr Tatha Wiley is the author of Original Sin: Origins, Developments, Contemporary Meaning and Paul and the Gentile Women: Reframing Galatians. She has edited the volume Thinking of Christ: Proclamation, Explanation, Meaning and the series Engaging Theology: Catholic Perspectives, and teaches theology at the University of St. Thomas and the College of St. Catherine in St. Paul, Minnesota.