Lays out three distinct ways of responding to the main theological concerns and religious difficulties raised by the natural sciences today: conflict, contrast, and convergence.
66. See Niles Eldredge and Stephen Jay Gould, “Punctuated Equilibria: An Alternative to Phyletic Gradualism,” Models in Paleobiology, ed. Thomas J.M. Schopf (San Francisco, CA: Freeman, Cooper & Company, 1972), 82-115. 67.
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