It's not too tough: There is a significant number of people who understand & accept a Darwinian version of evolution whose faith is, nevertheless, undissolved.
Qualifications:
1) Do you need a list of names & publications? It shouldn't be hard for anyone who's at all familiar with work in the science-religion area to compile one.
2) By "Darwinian version of evolution" I mean a scientific theory of evolution in which natural selection plays a major role. If "Darwinism" means a totalizing philosophy of everything then the "triumphant claims" are tautologically true but also uninteresting.
3) I think that Dawkins' statement - or at least the one I recall - was that Darwinism "made it possible for a person to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist." That is considerably weaker than the claim that it "creates a truly fulfilled atheism."
Shalom
George
http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/
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From: Janice Matchett
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Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 2:16 PM
Subject: [asa] "I have yet to hear a coherent argument from a "theistic evolutionist" as to why."
Anybody here want to provide him with the coherent argument he's looking for? If so, I'll be glad to post it to him in the thread below. ~ Janice
To wit:
I have yet to hear a coherent argument from a "theistic evolutionist" as to why Dawkins' and Dennett's triumphant claims that Darwinism is a "universal acid" that dissolves faith in God and creates a truly fulfilled atheism are wrong.
2 posted on 10/17/2006 12:57:01 PM EDT by wideawake
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Darwinian [ fill in the blank ] An Evolutionary Dead End (Book Review)
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