Calvin Versus Darwin: Anniversaries, Origins and Worldviews
Rev. Angus Stewart contrasts the lives, education, and theological trajectories of John Calvin and Charles Darwin on the occasion of their birth anniversaries in 2009, highlighting Calvin's conversion to biblical Christianity and Darwin's apostasy into agnosticism and evolutionism. The article sets up a foundational comparison between two worldviews—the Reformed Christian perspective versus evolutionary naturalism—that shaped the modern world. This resource serves as an introductory apologetic engagement with the tension between Reformed theology and Darwinian evolution.
Rev. Angus Stewart Calvin and Darwin This year, 2009, marks the anniversaries of the births of two of the most influential men of the last few centuries, two men without whom the history and the future of the modern world cannot be understood: John Calvin and Charles Darwin. 2009 is the 500th anniversary of Calvin’s birth and the 200th anniversary of Darwin’s birth. Which anniversary do you honour?2 John Calvin was a sixteenth-century French Reformer, the greatest Bible commentator,...