A.N. Wilson (an Oxford educated writer who returned to Christian faith in 2009 after two decades of atheism
[7]) revealing his doubts about evolution in response to a question posed in the
New Statesman about whether one can 'love God and agree with Darwin':
I think you can love God and agree with the author of The Voyage of the Beagle, the Earth Worm, and most of the Origin of Species. The Descent of Man, with its talk of savages, its belief that black people are more primitive than white people, and much nonsense besides, is an offence to the intelligence - and is obviously incompatible with Christianity. I think the jury is out about whether the theory of Natural selection, as defined by neo-Darwinians is true, and whether serious scientific doubts, as expressed in a new book Why Us by James Le Fanu, deserve to be taken seriously. For example, does the discovery of the complex structure of DNA and the growth in knowledge in genetics require a rethink of Darwinian 'gradualism'. But these are scientific rather than religious questions.
[8]
In
Why Us?
How Science Rediscovered the Mystery of Ourselves (Harper Press, 2009) James Le Fanu
[9], an apparently agnostic physician and writer
[10], contends:
The Ascent of Man from knuckle-walking chimp to upright human seems . . . almost self-evident, yet it conceals events that are without precedent in the whole of biology . . . This discrepancy between the beguiling simplicities of evolutionary theory and the profundity of the biological phenomena it seems to explain is very striking . . . Here the greatest virtue of Darwin's proposed mechanism, its simplicity, might seem its greatest drawback – that it is far too simple to begin to account for the complexities of life . . . There is . . . more than enough evidence already to suspect that Darwin was less right than is commonly perceived.
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