The Evolution-Creation StruggleHarvard University Press, 2009 M06 30 - 336 páginas Creation versus evolution: What seems like a cultural crisis of our day, played out in courtrooms and classrooms across the county, is in fact part of a larger story reaching back through the centuries. The views of both evolutionists and creationists originated as inventions of the Enlightenment--two opposed but closely related responses to a loss of religious faith in the Western world. In his latest book, Michael Ruse, a preeminent authority on Darwinian evolutionary thought and a leading participant in the ongoing debate, uncovers surprising similarities between evolutionist and creationist thinking. Exploring the underlying philosophical commitments of evolutionists, he reveals that those most hostile to religion are just as evangelical as their fundamentalist opponents. But more crucially, and reaching beyond the biblical issues at stake, he demonstrates that these two diametrically opposed ideologies have, since the Enlightenment, engaged in a struggle for the privilege of defining human origins, moral values, and the nature of reality. Highlighting modern-day partisans as divergent as Richard Dawkins and Left Behind authors Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins, Ruse's bracing book takes on the assumptions of controversialists of every stripe and belief and offers to all a new and productive way of understanding this unifying, if often bitter, quest. |
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... Christianity and Its. Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN-13: 978-0-674-01687-3 (cloth) ISBN-10 ... Christianity. 2. Religion and science. BT712.R88 2005 I. Title. 231.7!652—dc22 2005040282 Forbid it , Lord , that I ...
... Christianity and Its. Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN-13: 978-0-674-01687-3 (cloth) ISBN-10 ... Christianity. 2. Religion and science. BT712.R88 2005 I. Title. 231.7!652—dc22 2005040282 Forbid it , Lord , that I ...
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Michael RUSE, Michael Ruse. Contents Prologue I Christianity and Its Discontents 7 2 From Progress to Evolution 28 3 Growth of a Pseudoscience 42 4 Charles Darwin 64 5 Failure of a Professional Science 83 6 Social Darwinism 103 7 Christian ...
Michael RUSE, Michael Ruse. Contents Prologue I Christianity and Its Discontents 7 2 From Progress to Evolution 28 3 Growth of a Pseudoscience 42 4 Charles Darwin 64 5 Failure of a Professional Science 83 6 Social Darwinism 103 7 Christian ...
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... Christian religion and its claims about creation and about the nature of God , of humans , and of our relationship to God . Yet “ Dover Beach , ” with its anguished cry , shows that a loss of faith in the second half of the nineteenth ...
... Christian religion and its claims about creation and about the nature of God , of humans , and of our relationship to God . Yet “ Dover Beach , ” with its anguished cry , shows that a loss of faith in the second half of the nineteenth ...
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... Christian concept of creation by God from nothing — some people would designate this Creation with a capital C. Or it can be creationism , the specific , bibli- cally based religion of many ( especially American ) evangelicals — six ...
... Christian concept of creation by God from nothing — some people would designate this Creation with a capital C. Or it can be creationism , the specific , bibli- cally based religion of many ( especially American ) evangelicals — six ...
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... Christianity ( many Darwinians are Christians ) but the idea of creationism and perhaps other notions of creation — and therein lies the problem . In other words , there is more to the story of creationism than a simple misunderstanding ...
... Christianity ( many Darwinians are Christians ) but the idea of creationism and perhaps other notions of creation — and therein lies the problem . In other words , there is more to the story of creationism than a simple misunderstanding ...
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3 Growth of a Pseudoscience | 42 |
4 Charles Darwin | 64 |
5 Failure of a Professional Science | 83 |
6 Social Darwinism | 103 |
7 Christian Responses | 129 |
10 Evolution Today | 190 |
11 Nature as Promise | 214 |
12 Earths Last Days? | 236 |
Conclusion | 262 |
Notes | 289 |
References and Reading | 299 |
Acknowledgments | 318 |
Index | 320 |
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