From Genesis to Genetics, The Case of Evolution and Creationism
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UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
2002
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loginOf the three major conflicts between science and religion, two havealready been settled. It is now generally accepted that the Earth isround, not flat, and that the Earth revolves around the sun, ratherthan the sun circling the Earth. The third major conflict concernsorigins—the origins of the universe, the Earth, and all its living crea-tures. In Western culture until the middle of the nineteenth centurythe answer to the question of origins was divine creation as describedin Genesis, the first book of the Judeo-Christian Bible. This explana-tion had satisfied most people in the West since the waning days ofthe Roman Empire.
