There are many areas where we can appreciate Kuyper’s criticism of culture. One of those areas is his interaction between science and theology, and more specifically, science with biblical revelation. Kuyper debated evolution in his 1899 rectoral oration at the Free University of Amsterdam. He criticized a series of features of Darwin’s theory of evolution. These objections include the theory’s features of naturalism, its mechanistic understanding of the world, its atheistic worldview, and its a-teleological characteristic. Without a doubt, the theory of evolution has been one of the most controversial topics for modern Christians. Kuyper’s article ‘evolution’ not only shows …
