The Evolution-Creation StruggleHarvard University Press, 30 июн. 2009 г. - Всего страниц: 336 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. |
Содержание
1 | |
7 | |
28 | |
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 |
Другие издания - Просмотреть все
Часто встречающиеся слова и выражения
adaptive American animal argued believe Bible biblical biological progress biologists Britain Cambridge Catholic cause Charles Darwin Christ Christian Church comes commitment complex Conway Morris creation creationists cultural Cuvier Darwinian Dawkins deism Dembski Dobzhansky earth evangelicals evolutionary biology evolutionism evolutionists existence fact faith Fisher fossil record future genes Genesis Genetics God's Gould Harvard University Press Haught Henry Herbert Spencer human Huxley Huxley's ideas ideology intelligent design Jesus John Henry Newman kind Lamarck living London metaphor metaphysical millennial modern moral move natural selection natural theology Newman organisms Origin of Species Owen Oxford percent philosophy picture popular population position postmillennial postmillennialist premillennial premillennialist professional science progressionist reason religious Richard Dawkins Rolston Ruse scientific scientists secular simply social Spencer story Teilhard theologians things Thomas Henry Huxley thought tion traditional Victorian W. D. Hamilton wanted Whewell Wilson Wright York