In Darwin's Pious Idea: Why the Ultra-Darwinists and Creationists Both Get it Wrong British scholar Conor Cunningham insists that the debate today between religion and evolution has been hijacked by extremists: on one side stand fundamentalist believers who reject evolution outright, and opposing them are fundamentalist atheists who claim that Darwin's theory rules out the possibility of God.
Both sides are wrong, argues Cunningham, who is at once a Christian and a firm believer in the theory of evolution. As such, Cunningham puts forth a trenchant, compelling case for both creation and evolution, drawing skillfully on an array of philosophical, theological, historical, and scientific sources to buttress his arguments.