{"id":160,"date":"2011-02-02T10:23:46","date_gmt":"2011-02-02T10:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/religionandpubliclife\/2011\/02\/washington-post-hearts-fundamentalism.html"},"modified":"2011-02-02T10:23:46","modified_gmt":"2011-02-02T10:23:46","slug":"washington-post-hearts-fundamentalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/religionandpubliclife\/2011\/02\/washington-post-hearts-fundamentalism.html","title":{"rendered":"Washington Post Hearts Fundamentalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"fundamentals.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.spiritual-politics.org\/fundamentals.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left;margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt\" width=\"183\" height=\"275\" \/>&#8220;Evolution<br \/>\nruns directly counter to most major world religions, which teach that<br \/>\nGod created the world in some form or another.&#8221; That pithy, &#8220;Voice of<br \/>\nGod&#8221; sentence was written yesterday by Julia Duin, late of the <i>Washington Times<\/i>, now anchor of the <i>Washington Post<\/i>&#8216;s On Faith daily discussion of religion in the news. Come again?<\/p>\n<p>Evolution does not run directly counter to Buddhism or Hinduism; indeed,<br \/>\nthe latter tends to be sympathetic to evolutionary ways of thinking.<br \/>\nNor does Islam consider itself &#8220;countered&#8221; by evolution. Much of the<br \/>\nJudeo-Christian world accepts evolution, and not just liberal<br \/>\nProtestantism. Mainstream Orthodox Judaism is down with evolution, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jewish_views_on_evolution\">&#8220;properly understood.&#8221;<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Catholic_Church_and_evolution\">So is<\/a> the Vatican. Mormonism has no official position on the subject. <\/p>\n<p>Sure, you can find adherents of all of the above religious traditions<br \/>\nwho oppose evolution. But the only tradition that believes itself to be<br \/>\ndirectly countered by evolution is fundamentalist Christianity, which<br \/>\nemerged in the early 20th century in part to combat Darwinian theory and<br \/>\nwhat it considered its baleful effects on Christian orthodoxy. To that<br \/>\nend, the early fundamentalists invented the idea of biblical &#8220;inerrancy&#8221;<br \/>\nand <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fundamentalist%E2%80%93Modernist_Controversy#The_Fundamentals_and_.22Back_to_Fundamentals.22\">made it<\/a> a pillar of their faith.<\/p>\n<p>Duin advances the notion that what sets the world&#8217;s religions against<br \/>\nevolution is the widely shared (&#8220;in some form or other&#8221;) teaching that<br \/>\nGod created the world. But such a view only makes sense if your<br \/>\nunderstanding of creation is the classic inerrantist one: creation<br \/>\naccording to the Genesis account of the Six Days, complete with all the<br \/>\nliving creatures in their present form. It&#8217;s fair to say, however, that<br \/>\nthe preponderance of magisterial religious teaching these days is that<br \/>\nevolution is consistent with divine creation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Evolution runs directly counter to most major world religions, which teach that God created the world in some form or another.&#8221; That pithy, &#8220;Voice of God&#8221; sentence was written yesterday by Julia Duin, late of the Washington Times, now anchor of the Washington Post&#8216;s On Faith daily discussion of religion in the news. 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