150 years after the publication of Charles Darwin's 'On the Origin of Species' British philosopher and theologian Dr Conor Cunningham looks at how the Christian world received Darwin's theory of evolution. Cunningham says when Darwin's theory was first published in Britain it was welcomed by both the Anglican and Catholic Churches. He claims that the conflict between the evolution theory and belief in God was manufactured by American creationists in the 20th century for political and moral reasons. Finally, he talks to some of the world's eminent evolutionary biologists, geneticists and philosophers to examine whether the latest advances in evolutionary theory contradict belief in God
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Recorded off-air on 22.11.2009 from the ABC programme Compass
Credits
Written & presented by Conor Cunningham; produced & directed by Emily Davis
