Responses to 101 Questions on God and Evolution

by John F. Haught

Publisher:

Paulist Press

, 2001

Overview

In this volume, John F. Haught provides a succinct overview of questions that still divide scientific materialists and religious believers. His helpful introduction serves as a valuable tool for both clergy and laypeople responding to the questions of the curious and critical.

Contents

Top Highlights

“A theory is a broad way of organizing and rendering intelligible the observable data uncovered by scientific exploration. And nothing becomes a scientific ‘fact’ except in the context of an overarching theory. Theory is not something that dissolves or disappears once we get to the ‘facts.’ It abides as the intelligible context in which all facts are identified as such.” (Page 13)

“If God is an intelligent designer, why has there been so much tinkering with the original designs? After extensive reading and consultation, Darwin began to doubt the traditional theological conviction that species had been ‘fixed’ from the beginning of time, and he started to develop what came to be called his theory of ‘evolution.’” (Page 12)

“Eventually beings with limbs, nervous systems, and minds emerged out of the mud” (Page 24)

“consonant with biblical religion’s faith in the God of” (Page 85)

“In his autobiography he does pointedly state that ‘disbelief crept over me at a very slow rate, but was at last complete. The rate was so slow that I felt no distress, and have never since doubted for a single second that my conclusion was correct.’ Still, Darwin continued to refer occasionally to the work of a ‘Creator,’ or to a remote deity who created the universe and its general laws, but then pretty much left it on its own.” (Pages 12–13)

Product Details

• Title: Responses to 101 Questions on God and Evolution
• Author: John F. Haught
• Series: 101 Questions and Answers Series
• Publisher: Paulist Press
• Print Publication Date: 2001
• Logos Release Date: 2014
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Evolution › Religious aspects--Christianity--Miscellanea
• ISBNs: 0809139898, 9780809139897
• Resource ID: LLS:RSPNSS101GDVLTN
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T20:48:06Z

About John F. Haught

John F. Haught is a Roman Catholic theologian and Senior Research Fellow at the Woodstock Theological Center at Georgetown University. His area of expertise is systematic theology, with a special interest in issues of science, cosmology, ecology, and reconciling evolution and religion.