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RELIGIONS
Volume 12, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/rel12020124
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Darwinism; creation science; mechanism; organicism; root metaphor
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The author has been wrestling with the question of God's existence and how it reconciles with the theory of evolution throughout his life, eventually becoming a long-standing agnostic who approaches uncertainties with humility, finding great meaning in this modesty.
Does God exist? If he does, what is the evidence for this? Can one arrive at God through reason (natural theology), or is it faith or nothing (revealed theology)? I write of my lifetime of wrestling with this question. Raised a Quaker, I lost my faith at the age of 20. As an academic, I became an expert on Charles Darwin and his theory of evolution through natural selection. How can I make sense of-and how can I reconcile-these two hugely important things in my life? At the age of 80, I find myself a long-standing agnostic. This is not, as Francis Collins claims, a cop out. Showing my debt to my Quaker heritage, I am theologically apophatic. I can say only what I do not know. I find this quite-out-of-character modesty hugely exciting. It gives my life great meaning.
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