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Interestingly, an analysis of the reception of Darwin's work 
in the nineteenth century suggests that not all relidious 
traditions had quite as great a difficulty as the Evolutionist/
Creationist controversy might imply. If you're interested in
chasing this down a little, I'd refer you to an article about
the historical origins of the Fundementalist/Darwinist controversy
written by George Marsden and published in the British journal
(I think the title and date are right here...forgive me if they
aren't) Science in late 83-early 84. You might also want to locate
a recent book examining the reception of Darwin among the Calvinist
tradition (maybe a University of CHicago Press book...any librarians
out there?) whose title escapes me. THe basic hypothesis is that
the Darwinian issue provided the early Fundementalists with a kind
of concrete enemy against which to wage their battles. In turn, the
whole Darwinian method was itself located in the midst of an ongoing
philosophical argument about the uses and limits of the Scientific
method (yep....a number of philosophers and scientists *also* debate
the "Does Science have a kind of Orthodoxy which masks *its*
failures. Just be glad there are few of them on this net, or the 
arguments might REALLY get interesting), and engagement with the
FUndementalists had the net effect of polarizing the argument 
considerably (some Darwinists being as unwilling to stake out and
defend a "middle ground" as their Baptist opponents).


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