The Challenge of Evolution to Religion

This Element focuses on three challenges of evolution to religion: teleology, human origins, and the evolution of religion itself. We show how tensions arise and offer potential responses for religion. Individual religions can meet these challenges, if some of their metaphysical assumptions are adapted or abandoned.

1. Science, religion, and evolution; 2. Teleology, divine purpose, and divine design; 3. Human origins: an evolutionary challenge to religion?; 4. Evolutionary origins of religion.