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Evolution and Religious Experience. Review of Johan De Smedt’s and Helen De Cruz’s book "The Challenge of Evolution to Religion" - University Printing House, Cambridge, 2020. – 76 p.

SHV.
2020;
Volume 6, Number 2
: 53-56
https://doi.org/10.23939/shv2020.02.053
Received: September 10, 2020
Accepted: October 10, 2020
Authors:
  1. Andrii Kadykalo
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Lviv National Polytechnic University

The author of the review analyzes the book that focuses on three challenges of evolution to religion: teleology, origin of a human being, and the evolution of religion itself. De Smedt and Helen De Cruz show how these tensions arise and offer potential responses for religion. Individual religions can meet these challenges, if some of their metaphysical assumptions are adapted or abandoned.

theism
teleology
evolution
science
religion

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