Despite the impression given by the BBC, all is not well with Darwin’s theory of evolution on this 200th anniversary of his birth.
For example, I noticed that Sir David Attenborough’s celebratory TV programme was titled Charles Darwin and the Tree of Life, but at the end of the January New Scientist magazine’s front page headline was ‘Darwin was wrong: cutting down the tree of life’. It reported that the data concerning the perceived connections between living creatures simply does not link together in a Darwinian tree-like fashion.
Of course, that doesn’t mean that New Scientist acknowledges God as creator. But it does mean that there is actually no generally agreed theory of evolution. One scientist quoted said: ‘The tree of life is being politely buried, we all know that. What’s less accepted is that our whole fundamental view of biology needs a change.’
The re-emergence of heavy shepherds
What would you think if you received a letter from your church leaders that read like this? ‘Are church members …