[Buddha-l] Fighting creationism

[jkirk]

Please all: what the hell is the "neo-Darwinist theory of creation"?
I thought that we subscribed to Darwin's theory of evolution, refined some 
since he promulgated it but still bearing his nomen. So what has the "neo-" 
prefix added?

Joanna
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From: "Richard Hayes" <rhayes at unm.edu>
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Subject: [Buddha-l] Fighting creationism


> Should we on buddha-l lend these French scientists a helping hand?
>
> http://pewforum.org/news/display.php?NewsID=13103
>
> March 27, 2007
> French Scientists Rebut U.S., Muslim Creationism
>
> by Tom Heneghan
> Reuters
>
> With creationism now coming in Christian and Muslim versions, scientists,
> teachers and theologians in France are debating ways to counteract what 
> they
> see as growing religious attacks on science.
>
> Bible-based criticism of evolution, once limited to Protestant 
> fundamentalists
> in the United States, has become an issue in France now that Pope Benedict
> and some leading Catholic theologians have criticized the neo-Darwinist 
> view
> of creation.
>
> An Islamist publisher in Turkey mass-mailed a lavishly illustrated Muslim
> creationist book to schools across France recently, prompting the 
> Education
> Ministry to proscribe the volume and question the way the story of life is
> taught here.
>
> The Bible and the Koran say God directly created the world and everything 
> in
> it. In Christianity, fundamentalists believe this literally but the 
> largest
> denomination, Catholicism, and most mainline Protestant churches read it 
> more
> symbolically.
>
> -- 
> Richard Hayes
> Department of Philosophy
> University of New Mexico
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