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The Advancement unapologetically presents the biblical solution as the only satisfactory worldview for modern life in contrast to the naturalistic worldview that dominates thought today. A unique Christian apologetic approaching Darwinian naturalism from a history-of-ideas perspective, Bush argues that progress and advancement are better metaphors to characterize the late twentieth century and...

The Rise of an Evolutionary Worldview The natural sciences did not immediately accept Lyell’s theories; however, the more humanistically oriented social sciences did welcome them. Charles Darwin’s famous book, The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection (1859), proposed a biological theory that was in many ways parallel to Lyell’s geological theory.5 Darwin, too, was strongly opposed at first by many in the scientific community as well as in the religious community.6 However, his book became
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