When Darwin’s Origin of Species was published in 1859 it didn’t take long for sensible theologians, like Cardinal John Henry Newman, to accept evolution as part of God’s providence. But to this day Christianity remains split between creationist “neats,” who read Genesis literally, and non-literalist “scruffies,” who see Genesis as a myth or a poem.
There is fundamentalism on both sides of the divide. While creationists read the Bible as a cosmological textbook, writers like Richard Dawkins treat evolution as a theory of everything—which is why we have clashed in public. I have always, however, been a keen admirer of the Darwinist professor Steve Jones, who is an eminent biologist and a gifted writer. Jones is professor of genetics and head of the biology department at University College, London. We met recently at his office in the Galton Laboratory behind Euston station to talk Darwinism.
Jones went to grammar school on the Wirral but left at 16 to become an apprentice fitter at the Unilever detergent factory before, via night school, heading to Edinburgh University to read zoology. He is the only biologist to have had the chutzpah to “update” Darwin. He did it in his book Almost Like a Whale, and to celebrate the Darwin bicentenary he has brought out a new book, Darwin’s Island, which examines Darwin’s less-known researches into British flora and fauna.
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My main objection to DAWKINS and other scientists, why they writing again and again on death of God or say The God delusion.In man`s deep deep psyche this concept very strongly inherited till man want idea of GOD.Why?
From birth to grave man` s struggle is to survive in any condition, for survival purpose man want some illusion, and God is greatest illusion which help him.
Dawkins want cheap popularity, really speaking all his pompous writing is footnotes of Darwin`s Origin of Spaces.
Long long ago God is illusion, this concept was recognised by SHNKERACHAYA, Kant but they were very serious thinkers so they forcefully mention that this concept is essiential for welfare of mankind.
If idea of GOD completely perished from mind of man, how can he live on this earth, from dawn of mankind this illusion is given meaning to his life, can Dawkins and other scientists give very meaningful other illusion to mankind for survival ? Without illusion how can man survive on this earth?