Reading Genesis after Darwin

Abstract

Abstract In the ongoing, often fraught dialogue in the West between science and religion, the interpretation of the accounts of creation in the book of Genesis has often been contentious. Coinciding with the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin and the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species, the thirteen chapters in this book make a contribution to the dialogue by offering multidisciplinary perspectives on the interpretation of Genesis after Darwin. With essays by specialists in biblical studies, theology, hermeneutics, science, the history of science, and the social sciences, the volume as a whole shows that Genesis expresses truth about the world in its own unique way and that, in relation to questions about the meaning of life at a time of moral and ecological crisis, it is a book that speaks still today. Instead of confining Genesis to the cultural margins, the suggestion is offered that the Darwinian controversies may actually free contemporary readers for a more authentic dialogue between the text of Genesis and the discoveries of evolutionary cosmology and biology.

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