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Time: 5 hours
Level: Introductory
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 Introduction Resource- Comments like this are commonplace in anti-evolutionary publications, though this particular example is interesting because it comes from an Islamic creationist, demonstrating that such misinterpretation...
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| | 1 Evolution versus creation: science and non-science
- 1 Evolution versus creation: science and non-science Resource
- Science aims to extend our understanding of natural phenomena through testing of explanatory hypotheses by reference to hard evidence. It is not concerned with ideas that cannot be tested in this way,...
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| | 2 Creationism in disguise
- 2 Creationism in disguise Resource
- In recent years, creationists have re-branded their hypothesis as ‘intelligent design’, which asserts that the apparently designed fit of organisms to their conditions of life necessarily implies the existence...
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- 3 Evolution and religion Resource
- It would be a mistake, however, to suppose that the invalidity of the creationist hypothesis and the redundancy of any supernatural agency in the Darwinian theory of evolution by natural selection necessarily...
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- 4 Logos and mythos Resource
- An interesting perspective on the distinction between religious belief and scientific understanding has been provided by Karen Armstrong, who relates them to two complementary modes of human thinking,...
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| | 5 The Scopes monkey trial
- 5 The Scopes monkey trial Resource
- This section was written by Gary Slapper.
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- 6 Summary Resource
- Is a belief in God compatible with the science of evolution, or does the question itself confuse the respective roles of science and religion?
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- 7 Next steps Resource
- After completing this unit you may wish to study another OpenLearn unit related to this subject:
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