"Inherit The Wind" Book/Movie

[Sabda]

Two posts were right on the money on this and I would like to make it even simpler. The Church teaches that God created mankind (that is required belief), how he did it, the Church leaves to science. There is no conflict between the Church and science since God created everything and it is up to us to figure out how it was done. Therefore it is ok to read the book or see the movie, remembering that Hollywood takes lots of liberty in details to make it interesting. Also remember that evolution is a theory.

Exactly,

As Cardinal Baronious said “Scripture tells us how to go to heaven, not how the heavens go.”

 

[Sabda]

While I’m not the op, I want thank all of you who have suggested the books. This is something I have been looking into recently and this well give me lots of reading material.
According to the reviews on Amazon, Darwin’s Black Box, appears to be quite the controversial little book.

 

[lak611]

I read the book Inherit the Wind and saw the movie in history class in a Catholic high school. I also have a degree in biology (B.S.) from a Catholic college. I do believe in evolution; however, I believe that it is God who caused that “Big Bang” and God who created the souls of the very first human beings and all of their descendents. As long as God is believed to be the One who started creation and that He created souls of mankind, there is no conflict between science and evolution. God does truly work in mysterious ways, and we will never truly know exactly how He accomplished His creation, but if it is a process over millions of years, that is possible and acceptable according to the Catholic faith. Evolution is more of a problem to fundamentalists, not Catholics.

 

[Donald45]

According to the reviews on Amazon, Darwin’s Black Box, appears to be quite the controversial little book.

There are three books in particular that do an especially good job of critiquing Behe’s book:

Kenneth R. Miller, Finding Darwin’s God: A Scientist’s Search for Common Ground Between God & Evolution (HarperCollins, 1999)

Robert T. Pennock, Tower of Babel: The Evidence Against the New Creationism (MIT, 1999)

Eugenie C. Scott, Evolution Vs. Creationism: An Introduction (U. of California Press, 2004)

May God bless your study.

Don
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[Sabda]

There are three books in particular that do an especially good job of critiquing Behe’s book:

Kenneth R. Miller, Finding Darwin’s God: A Scientist’s Search for Common Ground Between God & Evolution (HarperCollins, 1999)

Robert T. Pennock, Tower of Babel: The Evidence Against the New Creationism (MIT, 1999)

Eugenie C. Scott, Evolution Vs. Creationism: An Introduction (U. of California Press, 2004)

May God bless your study.

Don
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Thank you for the suggestions. I have the first one down but not the other two. My list of reading material is now about 5 miles long. It’s funny to me because I can look at the Creation account and see a form of evolution in it.