It might seem strange to use the term evil to describe the struggle for survival among animals that we see in evolutionary history, but Peters thinks such a label is necessary if we are to hold the human and animal worlds together — which is something we must do given the
insights of evolutionary science.
The explosion of scientific knowledge, the predictive accuracy of mathematical physics, the
emergence of evolutionary science based on random variation rather than on purpose, the controlling paradigm of reductionism, the dominance of materialist explanations and assumptions — all of these developments made science - based theological speculations difficult and, in the eyes of many, impossible.
Some modern defenders of Darwin — like Daniel Dennett, director of the Center for Cognitive Studies and professor of philosophy at Tufts University — argue that it is just such a notion of God that has to be discarded in
view of evolutionary science.
I do hope you don't think Darwin is the be - all / end -
all of evolutionary science, because he isn't.