The Field Museum hopes a new Darwin exhibit will strike a blow against creationism, so writes the Chicago Tribune. The report by William Mullen expresses some disgust that anyone could still doubt Darwin’s account of evolution. Mullen offers a brief primer on the life and work of Charles Darwin, whose theories published in the 1859 book On the Origin of Species, Mullen says, became the “foundation of all biological thinking.”
I appreciated the reporter’s Darwin recap. The article read a little bit like what Christianity Today tries to do in many of our stories with historical and theological context. That’s when I realized what Mullen had done. He used the Field Museum exhibit as a news hook to catechize his readers about Darwin’s theories. It’s enough to make you wonder where science ends and dogma begins.
