Did Darwin Get It Right?: Catholics and the Theory of Evolution Book

Today most people believe that Darwin's explanation of the origin of species is indisputable fact. The truth is much more surprising: Not only has Darwin's theory not been proved, it has come under increasing criticism from within the scientific community itself.

While evolution - the common descent of species - is still a plausible scientific theory, Darwin's ideas about how this process occurred are collapsing. As the facade of Darwinism steadily crumbles, the teaching of the Catholic Church is emerging as the sound voice of truth.

Did Darwin Get it Right? sorts out the facts about evolution by showing that Catholic belief about God's creation and scientific evidence about the origins of the universe are mutally compatible. By demonstrating that Darwin used his own highly dubious philosophical notions and his own circumspect religious sentiments to explain the mechanisms of evolution, George Sim Johnston proves that a reasonable Catholic middle ground exists between the poles of biblical and scientific absolutism.

A concise, readable explanation for nonscientists, Did Darwin Get It Right? brings the debate over evolution out of the archaic images of the Scopes Monkey Trail into the light of modern science and timeless Faith.

First Things Magazine

This is the kind of book you give to skeptics who suppose all Christians are mindless buffoons, and to fundamentalists who believe a total rejection of critical scientific thinking is a faithful response, and to conscientious agnostics who want to believe but think science stands in the way.