I d the future a podcast about evolution and intelligent design

welcome to ID the Future. I'm your guest host Mike Keys. Today we have the privilege of talking with Dr Robert Shetinger.

Dr Shetinger occupies an endowed chair in biblical studies at

Luther College. He began teaching there in 2000 after earning his PhD in Religious Studies from Temple University in

Philadelphia. He also earned an earlier BS in civil engineering technology

from Temple. Dr. Shetinger's primary research interests revolve around the question,

what is religion? He has recently published a book about the relation between

evolutionary biology and religion,

entitled The Mystery of Evolutionary Mechanisms,

Darwinian biology's grand narrative of triumph

and the subversion of religion.

Thanks for joining us today, Dr. Shetinger.

Thank you. It's wonderful to be here.

So in your book, The Mystery of Evolutionary Mechanisms, you talk about a grand narrative of Darwinian

Triumph that subverts religion, built right into the title.

What did you mean by this? So I back in 2014 had a semester sabbatical break and I had begun teaching a course in the relationship between science and religion, and I knew I needed to brush up on the science

side of that. And so I began reading sort of the history, the literature the history of the development of

evolutionary theory starting of course with Darwin but on through all the major

works of the so-called Neo-Darwinian synthesis and up to the present day.

And I decided as somebody who trained in the humanities

that I would read it as a humanity scholar would,

read it with a certain skepticism and see if is it really telling the story that it proposes to be telling.

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