William Brafford rounds up all the links in the ongoing discussion sparked by Jim Manzi's defense of Bob Wright against Jerry Coyne. Noah Millman, last week:
So the real question is whether Darwin’s theory radically undermined the persuasiveness of the idea that we are the pinnacle of creation an idea that comes up again and again in the Abrahamic religions. And I think you’d have to argue that it does, for three reasons: first, because the idea of a natural heirarchy no longer is persuasive; second, because the mechanism of natural selection is repugnant to our usual conception of the Abrahamic God; and third, because if evolution is the mechanism of creation, then creation has not come to an end.
Manzi responds here.
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