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Nature 437, 815-816 (6 October 2005) | doi:10.1038/437815a; Published online 5 October 2005

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Should evolutionism be viewed as a modified descendant of Christianity?

BOOK REVIEWEDThe Evolution–Creation Struggle

by Michael Ruse

Harvard University Press: 2005. 336 pp. $25.95, £16.95

Few disputes have generated as much emotion, bitterness and incomprehension as the enduring conflict between darwinians and their creationist opponents. Those conversant with classical Christian theology know that the doctrine of Creation speaks of the ultimate dependence of everything on a transcendent power: it doesn't need supernatural conjuring tricks to account for each new species.

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