Reclaiming Creation in a Darwinian World

Abstract

This essay argues for the necessity and viability of a rigorous theological critique of the Darwinian tradition of evolutionary biology. Contending that Darwinism and the political economy from which it originated have been important agents in creating the contemporary “culture of death,” it argues that Darwinism either violates its claim to scientific status by relying upon an illicit metaphysics or that it robs itself of explanatory power by denying its own metaphysical status. More fundamentally, the current debate requires a metaphysically rigorous articulation of the Christian doctrine of creation, free from the theological distortions imposed by the “creationist” debate with Darwinism and thus equally critical of both.