The Evolution-Creation Struggle.
Ruse, Michael.
The Evolution-Creation Struggle. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (336 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Prologue -- 1 Christianity and Its Discontents -- 2 From Progress to Evolution -- 3 Growth of a Pseudoscience -- 4 Charles Darwin -- 5 Failure of a Professional Science -- 6 Social Darwinism -- 7 Christian Responses -- 8 Fundamentalism -- 9 Population Genetics -- 10 Evolution Today -- 11 Nature as Promise -- 12 Earth's Last Days? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References and Reading -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
Ruse uncovers surprising similarities between evolutionist and creationist thinking. 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.
9780674042971
Human evolution-Religious aspects-Christianity.
Religion and science.
Electronic books.
BT712
The Evolution-Creation Struggle. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (336 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Prologue -- 1 Christianity and Its Discontents -- 2 From Progress to Evolution -- 3 Growth of a Pseudoscience -- 4 Charles Darwin -- 5 Failure of a Professional Science -- 6 Social Darwinism -- 7 Christian Responses -- 8 Fundamentalism -- 9 Population Genetics -- 10 Evolution Today -- 11 Nature as Promise -- 12 Earth's Last Days? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References and Reading -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
Ruse uncovers surprising similarities between evolutionist and creationist thinking. 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.
9780674042971
Human evolution-Religious aspects-Christianity.
Religion and science.
Electronic books.
BT712