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additional challenge from evolution that should be noted is to theological
ethics. The challenge has two parts. First, religious moral teachings are
typically held to be authoritative because they have been received through
special divine revelations. However, critics question the reliability of such
claims based on the poor agreement between the Genesis account and the history
revealed by evolutionary science. Secondly, where traditional apologists such as C.S. Lewis have argued that
moral laws implicate a law-giver, various
accounts can be made for the emergence of ethical systems directly from
evolutionary principles. With a weakened argument for the special revelation of
a moral code, alternative accounts from the sciences are waiting in the wings.
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