Darwin and Doctrine: The Compatibility of Evolution and CatholicismIn Darwin's Dangerous Idea, the philosopher Daniel Dennett referred to evolution as a "universal acid," an idea that necessarily alters our way of thinking about everything largely by eating away at our belief in a loving, providential Creator. And since the publication of On the Origin of Species in 1859, countless believers have sensed an apparent conflict between evolution and the Christian faith, abandoning the latter in light of the robust